The Heroines Every Child Should Know

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The Heroines Every Child Should Know

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Introduction

I. Alcestis

II. Antigone

III. Iphigenia

IV. Paula

V. Joan of Arc

VI. Catherine Douglas

THE TRAGEDY OF JAMES I. OF SCOTS. 20TH FEBRUARY, 1437

VII. Lady Jane Grey

VIII. Pocahontas

IX. Flora Macdonald

X. Madame Roland

XI. Grace Darling

XII. Sister Dora

FOOTNOTES:

XIII. Florence Nightingale

SANTA FILOMENA

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Hamilton Wright Mabie, Kate Stephens

OK Publishing, 2020

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"I am come to mourn with thee, my son, for thou hast lost a noble wife. Only thou must endure, though this indeed is a hard thing. But take these adornments, for it is meet that she should be honoured who died for thee, and for me also, that I should not go down to the grave childless." And to the dead he said, "Fare thee well, noble wife, that hast kept this house from falling. May it be well with thee in the dwellings of the dead!"

But the King answered him in great wrath:

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