The suffrage leader Millicent Garrett Fawcett wrote these brief lives for a mothers’ magazine to show what women had achieved in a century. Her subjects include the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, Mary Carpenter, the astronomer Caroline Herschel, Sarah Martin the Yarmouth dressmaker, Mary Somerville, Queen Victoria, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale and Mary Lamb.
Inspiring Victorian portraits of women in science, reform and letters, good reading for older students. Download the free EPUB.