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W. H. Allen & Co.

Published

Listing of individual publications by title:

• Tales of the Sun (transcription project)
• Sketches of some distinguished Indian women (1891) (transcription project)
• The Military History of the Madras Engineers and Pioneers, From 1743 Up to the Present Time (1881) in two volumes.

Series

Eminent Women Series

The Eminent Women Series (some volumes titled Famous Women Series) was edited by John H. Ingram. All but one of the biographical volumes were themselves written by women.

1. George Eliot by Mathilde Blind Done
2. Emily Brontë by A. Mary F. Robinson Done
3. George Sand by Bertha Thomas Done
4. Mary Lamb by Anne Gilchrist Done
5. Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern (transcription project) To be Validated
6. Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe (transcription project) To be Validated
7. Elizabeth Fry by Emma Raymond Pitman (transcription project) In Progress
   1. Second Edition (start transcription)
8. Countess of Albany by Vernon Lee (transcription project)
9. Harriet Martineau by Florence Fenwick Miller (transcription project)
10. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin by Elizabeth Robins Pennell Done
11. Rachel by Nina H. Kennard (transcription project) To be Validated
12. Madame Roland by Mathilde Blind (transcription project) To be Validated
13. Susanna Wesley by Eliza Clarke (transcription project) In Progress
14. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, by John Henry Ingram Done
15. Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre by Mary Robinson (transcription project) To be validated
16. Madame de Staël by Bella Duffy (transcription project) To be Validated
17. Mrs. Siddons by Nina Kennard
    1. British Edition (transcription project)
18. Hannah More by Charlotte Mary Yonge To be Validated
    1. British Edition (transcription project)
19. Mary Shelley by Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti (transcription project) To be Validated
20. Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
21. Jane Austen by Mrs. Charles Malden (transcription project) To be Validated
22. Saint Theresa of Avila by Mrs. Bradley Gilman
23. Adelaide Ristori by Adelaide Ristori