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Eminent Women Series.

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Countess of Albany.By Vernon Lee.

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Harriet Martineau.By Mrs. Fenwick Miller.

"A faithful and sympathetic account of this remarkable woman."—Scotsman.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.By Elizabeth Robins Pennell.

"An impartial, judicious, complete representation of the life and work of a justlt celebrated woman."—Whitehall Review.

"A very excellent life. . . . The author has evidently that thorough sympathy with her subject without which it is probably impossible to write a really good biography."—Guardian.


Rachel.By Mrs. Kennard.

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Madame Roland.By Mathilde Blind.

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