Beacon Lights of HistoryFirst published posthumously in 1902, this collection of the lectures of American historian JOHN LORD (1810-1894) is a charming rummage through 6,000 years of European and American history, exploring the past from "the old pagan civilizations" to modern leaders and cultures on both sides of the Atlantic. This replica edition features all the original illustrations, hard to come by in other recent versions. It will delight both readers of history and lovers of beautiful, classic books. Volume VII: "Great Women" covers: [ Heloise and love [ Joan of Arc and heroic women [ Saint Theresa and religious enthusiasm [ Madame de Maintenon: the political woman [ Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough: the woman of the world [ women in literature [ women in politics [ the education of women [ George Eliot: woman as novelist [ and more |
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Marlborough CaptainGeneral 191 | 207 |
Voluntary exile of Marlborough | 215 |
Declining days of the Duchess | 219 |
Reflections on her career | 223 |
Chivalry the origin of society | 229 |
Her remarkable beauty and grace | 235 |
Incurs the hatred of Napoleon | 241 |
His retirement from political life | 248 |
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Admiration of the people for her | 87 |
Coronation of Charles | 92 |
Martyrdom of Joan | 101 |
Pleasures of the body the aim of Paganism | 110 |
The age of Saint Theresa | 116 |
Faith and repentance divorced | 123 |
The Confessions of Saint Augustine | 130 |
Theresa seeks to found a convent | 133 |
Her submission to authority | 139 |
Birth of Madame de Maintenon | 146 |
Contrast of Maintenon with Montespan | 152 |
Unbounded power of Madame de Maintenon | 156 |
His great mistakes | 161 |
Secret of Madame de Maintenona influence | 164 |
Persecution of the Protestants | 168 |
Her reign a usurpation | 176 |
Birth and early influence | 182 |
Treason of the Earl of Marlborough | 189 |
Accession of Anne | 191 |
Marlborough created a duke | 197 |
Coolness between the Queen and Duchess | 201 |
His old age soothed by Recamier | 249 |
Her beautiful old age | 253 |
MADAME DE STAEL | 263 |
Her powers of conversation | 269 |
Travels in Germany | 275 |
Visit to Italy | 282 |
Madame de Stael in England | 288 |
Incense offered to her | 291 |
Progress of female education | 301 |
Shines in society | 310 |
Works on female education | 316 |
Christian education | 323 |
Christian Morals 827 | 327 |
The sphere of woman | 335 |
GEORGE ELIOT | 343 |
Charlotte Bronte Harriet Beecher Stowe George Eliot | 349 |
Westminster Review literary and scientific men | 353 |
Mr Gilfils Love Story | 360 |
The Mill on the Floss | 367 |
Romola | 371 |
Felix Holt | 377 |
Theophrastus Such | 384 |
Regret at her abandonment of Christianity | 390 |
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