Famous Women: Sacred and Profane
by Glen Levin Swiggett
The University Press of Sewanee, Tennessee
1960
CONTENTS
Famous Women: Sacred and Profane
- Eve
- The Nine Muses
- Sarah
- Hagar
- Rebekah
- Rachel
- Rahab
- Deborah
- Delilah
- Ruth
- Bath-Sheba
- Hatshepsut, fifteenth century B.C.
- The Queen of Sheba, tenth century B.C.
- Jezebel, ninth century B.C.
- Esther
- Helen of Troy
- Penelope
- Dido
- Lavinia
- Sappho, sixth century B.C.
- Xanthippe, fifth century B.C.
- Aspasia, fifth century B.C.
- Olympias, 316 B.C.
- Three Courtesans
- Cornelia, second century B.C.
- Cleopatra, 69-30 B.C.
- Mary the Mother of our Lord
- Mary of Magdala
- Mary and Martha
- Agrippina II, first century
- Saint Helena, 248-328
- Brunhilde
- Hypatia, ca. 400
- Theodora, sixth century
- Fatima, early seventh century
- Hroswitha, tenth century
- Lady Murasaki, 987-1031
- Eleanor of Aquitaine, twelfth century
- Marie de France, twelfth century
- Empress Constance, 1152-1198
- Hëloïse, twelfth century
- Beatrice, 1266-1290
- Saint Catherine of Siena, 1347-1380
- Joan of Arc, 1412-1431
- Isabella of Spain, 1451-1504
- Beatrice D'Este, 1475-1497
- Anne of Brittany, 1477-1514
- Lucrezia Borgia, 1480-1519
- Margaret of Navarre, 1492-1549
- Saint Theresa of Avila, 1515-1582
- Catherine de' Medici, 1519-1589
- Elizabeth, 1533-1603
- Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
- Margaret of Valois, 1553-1615
- Marie de' Medici, 1573-1642
- The Rose of Lima, 1586-1617
- Anne Hutchinson, 1590-1643
- Henrietta Maria, 1609-1669
- Madame de Sévigné, 1626-1696
- Madame de Maintenon, 1675-1719
- Jeanne Marie Guyon, 1648-1717
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 1651-1695
- Queen Anne, 1664-1714
- Catherine the Great, 1729-1796
- Martha Washington, 1731-1802
- Abigail Adams, 1744-1818
- Jeanne du Barry, 1746-1793
- Madame Roland, 1754-1793
- Madame Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842
- Sarah Kemble Siddons, 1755-1831
- Marie Antoinette, 1755-1793
- Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797
- Josephine de Beauharnais, 1763-1814
- Mary Lamb, 1764-1847
- Julie de Krüdener, 1764-1824
- Madame de Staël, 1766-1817
- Charlotte Corday, 1768-1793
- Dolly Madison, 1768-1849
- Dorothy Wordsworth, 1771-1854
- Mother Seton, 1774-1821
- Jane Austen, 1775-1817
- Dorothy L. Lieven, 1785-1857
- Frances Wright, 1795-1852
- Peggy O'Neill, 1796-1879
- Harriet Martineau, 1802-1876
- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, 1804-1894
- George Sand, 1804-1876
- Eugénie de Guérin, 1805-1848
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806-1861
- Margaret Fuller, 1810-1850
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896
- The Bronté Sisters, Charlotte, 1816-1855; Emily, 1818-1848; Anne, 1820-1849
- George Eliot, 1817-1880
- Victoria, 1819-1901
- Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
- Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906
- Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910
- Clara Barton, 1821-1912
- Mary Baker Eddy, 1821-1910
- Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886
- Christina Rossetti, 1830-1894
- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, 1831-1891
- Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888
- Hetty Green, 1835-1916
- Frances Willard, 1839-1898
- Empress Carlotta, 1840-1927
- Carmen Sylva, 1843-1916
- Catherine Breshkovskaya, 1844-1934
- Sarah Bernhardt, 1844-1923
- Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, 1844-1879
- Annie Wood Besant, 1847-1933
- Emma Lazarus, 1849-1887
- Salome Urena de Henriquez, 1850-1897
- Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, 1850-1926
- Mrs. Philip North Moore, 1852-1931
- Lady Gregory, 1852-1932
- Mrs. Humphrey Ward, 1857-1920
- M. Carey Thomas, 1857-1935
- Selma Lagerlöf, 1858-1940
- Eleanor Duse, 1859-1924
- Carrie Chapman Catt, 1859-1947
- Marie Bashkirtsev, 1860-1884
- Jane Addams, 1860-1935
- Edith Wharton, 1862-1937
- Ricarda Huch, 1864-1947
- Marie Curie, 1867-1934
- Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946
- Amy Lowell, 1874-1925
- Mary McLeod Bethune, 1875-[1955]
- Willa Cather, 1876-1947
- Helen Keller, 1880-[1968]
- Pavlova, 1882-1931
- Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-[1962]
- Gabriela Mistral, 1889-1957
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 1890- [1900-1990]
- Pearl Buck, 1892-[1973]
- Dorothy Sayers, 1893-1957
- Marian Anderson, 1907- [1897-1993]
- Clare Boothe Luce, 1903-[1987]
Occasional