Happy women : Dolly Madison--Dorothy Wordsworth--Queen Louise--Caroline Herschel--Elizabeth Browning--Charlotte Cushman--Lucretia Mott--Florence Nightingale--Sister Dora--Jenny Lind--Louisa Alcott--Queen Victoria

Margaret Neilson Armstrong American
 Author Myrtle Reed American
 Publisher G.P. Putnam & Co., New York

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A collection of twelve biographies of strong women. The decorative panel is composed of intertwined stems resembling Hesperis matronalis, also known as Dame's Rocket and summer lilac. The same design is on the cover of Love Affairs of Literary Men, (1907) which Armstrong created by reappropriating the decorative panel in Lavender and Old Lace (1902). This is an imitation flexible red morocco variant of the original cloth edition.

Happy women : Dolly Madison--Dorothy Wordsworth--Queen Louise--Caroline Herschel--Elizabeth Browning--Charlotte Cushman--Lucretia Mott--Florence Nightingale--Sister Dora--Jenny Lind--Louisa Alcott--Queen Victoria, Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)

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Happy women : Dolly Madison--Dorothy Wordsworth--Queen Louise--Caroline Herschel--Elizabeth Browning--Charlotte Cushman--Lucretia Mott--Florence Nightingale--Sister Dora--Jenny Lind--Louisa Alcott--Queen Victoria, Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)
Happy women : Dolly Madison--Dorothy Wordsworth--Queen Louise--Caroline Herschel--Elizabeth Browning--Charlotte Cushman--Lucretia Mott--Florence Nightingale--Sister Dora--Jenny Lind--Louisa Alcott--Queen Victoria, Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)

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