ABSTRACT
These biographies are, as the title page describ~ sketches-slight but vivid. They incluae, in the short space of 230 pages, notices of twenty-four of the wom':~ who have left the deepest marks for good on the world m the past hundred years. Beginning with Elizabeth Fry and Mary Carpenter they include Mrs. Somervill~, Queen Victoria, the Brontes, Maria Edgworth, Lucretia Mott, &c., &c. They are not arranged ac?ording to chrono~ logy nor classified according to the1r works,, but eac4
