Maids of Honour

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Excerpt from Maids of Honour: Twelve Descriptive Sketches of Single Women Who Have Distinguished Themselves in Philanthropy, Travel, Nursing, Science, Poetry, ProseWith grateful thanks I beg to acknowledge the kindness of Mrs J. Addington Symonds, Messrs Macmillan, and Messrs Sampson, Low, Marston, Co., in allowing me to make use of 'recol lections of a Happy Life, ' 'west African Studies, ' 'poems of Christina Rossetti, ' and 'life of Louisa Alcott, ' respectively, - also to the Chairman of the Bristol Museum Committee, Professor J. Estlin Carpenter, Sir William Herschel and Miss Herschel, Mr Kirby, Mr Charles Kingsley, Madame Belloc, Mrs W. W. Vaughan, Mr F B. Sanborn, Mr W. M. Rossetti, Mr W. G. Strickland, and Mr C. Elkin Mathews, for their kindly readiness in lending me the originals from which the portraits in this volume are reproduced - most of them for the first time, - also to Delicia for her clever delineation of Hannah More's handwriting.For a detailed list of the illustrations and an interesting note respecting Agnes Strickland.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.