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Title: Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

Author: Sarah Knowles Bolton

Release Date: April 19, 2004 [EBook #12081]

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LIVES

OF

GIRLS WHO BECAME FAMOUS.

BY

SARAH K. BOLTON,

AUTHOR OF "POOR BOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS," "SOCIAL STUDIES IN ENGLAND,"
ETC.

1914

"_Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected._"
--JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

"_Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them_."
--MADAME DE STAEEL.

TO

MY AUNT,

MRS. MARTHA W. MILLER,
Whose culture and kindness I count
among the blessings of
my life.

PREFACE.

All of us have aspirations. We build air-castles, and are probably the
happier for the building. However, the sooner we learn that life is
not a play-day, but a thing of earnest activity, the better for us and
for those associated with us. "Energy," says Goethe, "will do anything
that can be done in this world"; and Jean Ingelow truly says, that
"Work is heaven's hest."

If we cannot, like George Eliot, write _Adam Bede_, we can, like
Elizabeth Fry, visit the poor and the prisoner. If we cannot, like
Rosa Bonheur, paint a "Horse Fair," and receive ten thousand dollars,
we can, like Mrs. Stowe and Miss Alcott, do some kind of work to
lighten the burdens of parents. If poor, with Mary Lyon's persistency
and noble purpose, we can accomplish almost anything. If rich, like
Baroness Burdett-Coutts, we can bless the world in thousands of ways,
and are untrue to God and ourselves if we fail to do it.

Margaret Fuller said, "All might be superior beings," and doubtless
this is true, if all were willing to cultivate the mind and beautify
the character.

S.K.B.

CONTENTS.

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Novelist

HELEN HUNT JACKSON Poet and Prose Writer

LUCRETIA MOTT Preacher

MARY A LIVERMORE Lecturer

MARGARET FU