Author |
Fuller, Osgood E. (Osgood Eaton), 1835-1900 |
Title |
Brave Men and Women: Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs
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Contents |
Benjamin Franklin -- Defence of a great man -- Sir Walter Scott and his mother -- Abigail Adams -- Two neighbors -- Horace Greeley -- Wendell Phillips -- Mary Wordsworth -- Madame Malibran -- Garfield maxims -- What I carried to college -- Sir John Franklin -- Elizabeth Estaugh -- "Chinese" Gordon -- Men's wives -- Women's husbands -- John Ploughman -- Caroline Lucretia Herschel -- Pestiferous literature -- Satisfied -- Heroes of science -- My Uncle Toby -- Stephen Girard -- Disappointments -- The three kings -- Florence Nightingale -- Shy people -- John Marshall -- A noble mother -- The care of the body -- Saint Cecilia -- Thomas De Quincey -- A vision of time -- John Bunyan -- Madame Roland -- Cheerful and brave -- Harold -- Peter Cooper -- Illusions -- Phillips Brooks -- St. John and the robber -- John Ploughman again -- Henry Wilson -- Joan of Arc -- The song of work -- Alvan S. Southworth -- A forbidden topic -- Ida Lewis Wilson -- Rachel Jackson -- Discontented girls -- The voice in Ramah -- La Fayette -- Lydia Sigourney -- Old age and usefulness -- Rhymes and chimes.
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Credits |
Produced by Kevin Handy, John Hagerson, and the the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team
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Language |
English |
LoC Class |
CT: History: Biography
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Subject |
Biography
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Category |
Text |
EBook-No. |
13942 |
Release Date |
Nov 3, 2004 |
Most Recently Updated |
Dec 18, 2020 |
Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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