Short lives of ten American women seen chiefly through their girlhoods: Pocahontas, Dorothy Quincy, Molly Pitcher, the Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew, the lighthouse keeper Ida Lewis, Clara Barton, the Donner Party survivor Virginia Reed, Louisa May Alcott, the actress Clara Morris and the orator Anna Dickinson. Written in 1917, it frames their courage as a call to wartime patriotism.
Biography written to inspire girls, and a window on how one generation chose its heroines. Download the free EPUB.