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A Group of Famous Women

by Edith Horton

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Brief, admiring biographies written for young American readers, beginning with Joan of Arc and moving to Dolley Madison, the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, the Quaker abolitionist Lucretia Mott, the educator Mary Lyon and the suffragist Lucy Stone, who taught at Oberlin and made her first public speech for the enslaved.

An inspiring introduction to women who changed their worlds, written to encourage girls to aim high. Download the free EPUB.

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