Historic Girls
1887
Elbridge Brooks' 1887 profiles of girls who left a mark on history, from Zenobia of Palmyra and Clotilda of Burgundy to Pocahontas and Catharine Schuyler. Twelve short lives written for young readers, each caught at the moment its subject's story turned.
- Preface
- Zenobia of Palmyra: the Girl of the Syrian Desert
- Helena of Britain: the Girl of the Essex Fells
- Pulcheria of Constantinople: the Girl of the Golden Horn
- Clotilda of Burgandy: the Girl of the French Vinyards
- Woo of Hwang-Ho: the Girl of the Yellow River
- Edith of Scotland: the Girl of the Norman Abbey
- Jacqueline of Holland: the Girl of the Land of Fogs, A.D. 1414
- Catarina of Venice: the Girl of the Grand Canal
- Theresa of Avila: the Girl of the Spanish Sierras
- Elizabeth of Tudor: the Girl of the Hertford Manor
- Christina of Sweden: the Girl of the Northern Fiords
- Ma-Ta-Oka of Pow-Ha-Tan: the Girl of the Virginia Forests