Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1907-1911

г920 H62

Historic gallery of portraits and paintings, and biographical review; containing a brief account of the lives of the most celebrated men in every age and country, and graphic imitations of the finest specimens of the arts, ancient and modern. v.3-5. 1808-09. Vernor.

Hoefer, Johann Christian Ferdinand, ed.

г920 H67

Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources à consulter. 46v. 1853-66.

Bibliography, v.1, p.2-3.

Ibn-Khallikân, Shams ad-Din Abû'l Abbâs Ahmad Bin

Muhammad.

qr920 I12

Biographical dictionary; tr. from the Arabic by Bn MacGuckin de Slane. 4v. 1843-71. Oriental translation fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

The author was a 13th century Arabian writer and scholar.

"His great work...contains brief sketches of the lives of all the most important personages of Muslim history and literature, with many appropriate anecdotes illustrative of their personal character, and extracts from the works of such of them as were authors or poets. It is the most complete and at the same time the most universal and comprehensive biographical dictionary in the Arabic language, and is the indispensable companion of the student of Mahometan literature." Encyclopædia Britannica.

г920 M5982

Men and women of America; a biographical dictionary of contemporaries. 1910. Hamersly.

г920 M598 Men of America; a biographical dictionary of contemporaries; ed. by J. W. Leonard. 1908. Hamersly.

Morgan, Henry James, ed.

г920 M89a

Canadian men and women of the time; a hand-book of Canadian biography. 1912. Briggs.

qr920 N15a

National cyclopædia of American biography; supplement. v.I. 1910. White.

For work which this supplements see preceding catalogue, first series.

qr920 N33

Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek, onder redactie van P. C. Molhuysen en P. J. Blok. v.I. 1911.

Öttinger, Eduard Maria, comp.

qr920 031

Moniteur des dates, contenant un million de renseignements biographiques, généalogiques et historiques. 9v. in 2. 1866-82.

German text.

v.7-9 are supplementary volumes comp. by Hugo Schramm-Macdonald.

г920 Q29

Qui êtes-vous? annuaire des contemporains, 1908, 1909/10. [1908-09.] г920 W6652

Who's who in New York city and state, 1905, 1909. 1905-09. Hamersly. Edition for 1909 is edited by J. W. Leonard.

Who's who in Pennsylvania, 1908. 1908. Hamersly.
Biographical dictionary of prominent living Pennsylvanians.
For volume for 1904 see preceding catalogue, second series.

Knight, Charles.

920.4 Booksellers

Shadows of the old booksellers. 1865. Bell.

г920 W665

920.4 K34

Contents: Thomas Guy.-John Dunton.-Jacob Tonson.-Thomas Gent, printer,

of York.-The Tonsons; Lintotts; Curll.-Samuel Richardson.-William Hutton.-Ed-
ward Cave; Ralph Griffiths.-Robert Dodsley.-Andrew Millar; Cadell and Strahan.—
John Newbery.-The Chapter coffee-house: Edward Dilly; Thomas Davies; Peter Elms-
ley; Thomas Evans; Thomas Payne; Thomas Longman; Robert Baldwin; John Riving-
ton; John Murray; Thomas Becket; Joseph Johnson; John Bell; Cook; Harrison; Note:
Publishers of Johnson's Poets.-James Lackington.-Appendix: The market of literature.
Biographical sketches and anecdotes of booksellers from the times of Charles II to

the 19th century.

Marston, Edward.

920.4 M42

Sketches of some booksellers of the time of Dr Samuel Johnson.

1902. Low.

Contents: Michael Johnson.-Andrew Millar.-Thomas Davies.-Thomas Osborne.-

Bernard Lintot; Henry Lintot.-Robert Dodsley.-The friends of literature.-Book-
sellers' literary club.-Thomas Evans.-John Nichols.-William Bowyer.-Edward Cave.

920.7 Biography of women

Armytage, A. J. Green-.

920.7 A74

Maids of honour; 12 descriptive sketches of single women who have

distinguished themselves in philanthropy, nursing, poetry, travel,
science, prose. 1906. Blackwood.

Contents: Hannah More.-Mary Carpenter.-C. L. Herschel.-Sister Dora.-Mary
Kingsley.-A. A. Procter.-Marianne North.-Jean Ingelow.-Louisa Alcott.—Christina
Rossetti.-Agnes Strickland.-Epilogue; Mary Lamb.

Bearne, Mrs Catherine Mary (Charlton).

920.7 B34

Heroines of French society in the court, the revolution, the empire
and the restoration. 1907. Dutton.

Contents: Madame Vigée Le Brun.-La marquise de Montagu.-Madame Tallien.
-Madame de Genlis.

Beniczkyné-Bajza, Lenke.

Leányok tükre; nagy magyar nők élete.

920.7 B43

Contents: Szilágyi Erzsébet.-Lorántffy Zsuzsánna.-Széchy Mária.-Zrinyi Ilona.

-Mária Terézia.-Erzsébet.

Bordeaux, Henry.

Portraits de femmes et d'enfants. 1909.

920.7 B63

Contents: Madame de Charmoisy.-La comtesse de Boigne.-Madame de Char-

rière. Julie de Lespinasse.-Trois comédiennes: Ariane, Le tombeau de la Malibran, La
princesse des fles d'Or.-Une inconnue de Sainte-Beuve.-L'enfance de Bayart.-L'en-
fance de Mistral.

"These biographical sketches include subjects of varying date, some familiar, others
little known. The latter may be said of 'Madame de Charmoisy,' the 'Philothée' of St.
François de Sales, and also of 'Madame de Charrière,' the gifted woman of letters of
the later eighteenth century, whose works and whose personality so strongly attracted
Sainte-Beuve. As to portraits of children, it would be difficult to excel in charm
'L'Enfance de Mistral.'" Spectator, 1909.

Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeilles, seigneur de.

920.7 B71
Book of the ladies (Illustrious dames), with elucidations on some
of those ladies by C. A. Sainte-Beuve; tr. by K. P. Wormeley.
Hardy.

1902.

Contents: Anne de Bretagne, queen of France.-Catherine de' Medici, queen and
mother of our last kings.-Marie Stuart, queen of Scotland, formerly queen of our
France.-Elisabeth of France, queen of Spain.-Marguerite, queen of France and of
Navarre. Mesdames, the daughters of the noble house of France. Of various illustri-
ous ladies.

Includes a sketch of Margaret of Angoulême, queen of Navarre.

"The Abbé de Brantôme (1540-1614) [was] ostensibly a writer of contemporary
biography, but really a laughing collector of piquant...stories of the dames de par le
monde, told with great gusto and considerable power of character painting, so that his
works are reprinted and still read." Wells's Modern French literature.

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

Famous royal women; a reading list for girls. 1908. Pittsburgh.
Reprinted from the "Monthly bulletin," Jan. 1908.

The same....

Clergue, Helen.

016.92 C21

.г016.92 C21f

920.7 C57

The salon; a study of French society and personalities in the
18th century. 1907. Putnam.

Contents: The evolution of the salon.-Madame Du Deffand.-Madame d'Épinay.
-Julie de Lespinasse.-Madame Geoffrin.

Creighton, Mrs Louise Hume (von Glehn).

Some famous women. 1909. Longmans.

920.7 C87

Contents: St. Hilda.-Joan, the fair maid of Kent.-Jeanne d'Arc, the Maid of
France. Margaret Beaufort.-Rachel, lady Russell.-Elizabeth Fry.-Mary Somerville.
- J. S. Inglis.— Florence Nightingale.— Isabella Bird, afterwards Mrs Bishop. -
Dora. Queen Victoria.

Endrődi, Sándor, ed.

Magyar hölgyek életrajzai.

Sister

920.7 E62

Fea, Allan.

920.7 F31

Some beauties of the 17th century. 1906. Methuen.
Contents: The duchess of Mazarin.-Henrietta, duchess of Orleans.-The duchess
of Somerset.-The duchess of Portsmouth.-The duchess of Richmond.-The countesses
of Falmouth and Rochester.-Lucy Walter.-Mary of Modena.-The countess of Castle-
maine. The countess de Gramont.-Nell Gwyn.-The countess of Shrewsbury.-Anne
Temple, Frances Jennings and Goditha Price.-The beautiful Myddeltons.-The coun-
tesses of Chesterfield and Southesk.-The Misses Brooke, Miss Fraser and Miss Law-
son.-Mademoiselle de la Vallière and the marchioness de Montespan.
Contains many reproductions from paintings by great artists.

Ferrero, Guglielmo.

The women of the Cæsars. 1911. Century.

920.7 F41

Contents: Woman and marriage in ancient Rome.-Livia and Julia.-The daughters
of Agrippa.-Tiberius and Agrippina.-The sisters of Caligula and the marriage of Mes-
salina.-Agrippina, the mother of Nero.

These accounts of the careers of some prominent women of imperial Rome furnish
a remarkably clear picture of the position of women and of other aspects of social life
in ancient Rome.

Gerard, Frances A.

920.7 G31

Some celebrated Irish beauties of the last century. 1895. Ward.
Contents: Mary Molesworth, countess of Belvedere. — Eleanor Ambrose, "the
dangerous papist."-The Gunnings.-Maria, countess of Coventry.-Elizabeth, duchess
of Hamilton and Argyll.-Mrs Travis and the other two daughters.-General Gunning

Gerard, Frances A.-continued.

920.7 G31

and the story of his daughter Gunilda.-Peg Woffington.-Dorothea Monroe.-The
three Miss Montgomerys.-Elizabeth La Touche, countess of Lanesborough.-Anne
Luttrell, duchess of Cumberland.-The romance of the Coghlans of Ardo.-Miss Far-
ren, countess of Derby.

"Authorities consulted," p.288-289.

Gerard, Frances A.

920.7 G31s

Some fair Hibernians; being a supplementary volume to "Some cele-
brated Irish beauties of the last century." 1897. Ward.

Contents: Dorothea Jordan.-Lady Anne and Lady Gertrude Fitzpatrick.-Mary
Birmingham, countess of Leitrim; Anne Birmingham, countess of Charlemont.-Sarah
Curran.-M. C. Trench.-Marguerite Power, countess of Blessington.-Sydney Owen-
son, lady Morgan; and Olivia Owenson, lady Clarke. — C. E. Sheridan, Mrs Norton,
afterwards lady Stirling-Maxwell of Keir.-Eliza O'Neill, lady Wrixon Becher.-M. D.
Gilbert, Lola Montez.

"Authorities," p.273-274.

Graham, Harry.

920.7 G76

Group of Scottish women. [1908.] Methuen.
Contents: Scotswomen of early times: Dervorguilla.-Some Scottish Amazons:
"Black Agnes of Dunbar."-Jane, countess of Sutherland.-Elizabeth, duchess of Lau-
derdale. Women of the covenant: Lady Grisell Baillie.-Anne, duchess of Buccleuch
and Monmouth.-Catherine, duchess of Queensberry.-Miss "Nicky" Murray.-Susan-
nah, countess of Eglinton.-Mrs Alison Cockburn.-Elspeth Buchan.-Isobel Pagan.—
Jane, duchess of Gordon.-Lady Anne Barnard.-Mrs Grant of Laggan.-Lady Louisa
Stuart.-Miss C. S. Graham.

Green, Mrs Mary Anne Everett (Wood).

920.7 G83

Lives of the princesses of England from the Norman conquest.
V.1-4. 1850-52. Colburn.

V.I. Cæcilia, eldest daughter of William the Conqueror.—Adeliza, daughter of Wil-
liam the Conqueror.—Matilda, daughter of William the Conqueror.-Constance, daughter
of William the Conqueror.-Adela, youngest daughter of William the Conqueror.-
Gundred, supposed daughter of William the Conqueror.-Matilda, daughter of Henry I.
-Matilda, daughter of King Stephen.-Mary, daughter of King Stephen.-Matilda,
eldest daughter of Henry II.-Eleanora, second daughter of Henry II.-Joanna, third
daughter of Henry II.-Joanna, eldest daughter of King John.

V.2.

Isabella, second daughter of King John.-Eleanora, third daughter of King
John.-Margaret, eldest daughter of Henry III.-Beatrice, second daughter of Henry
III.—Katherine, third daughter of Henry III.—Eleanora, eldest daughter of Edward I.
—Joanna, third daughter of Edward I.-Margaret, fourth daughter of Edward I.-
Berengaria, fifth daughter of Edward I.-Mary, sixth daughter of Edward I.

v.3. Elizabeth, eighth daughter of Edward I.-Eleanora, ninth daughter of Edward I.
-Eleanora, eldest daughter of Edward II.-Joanna, second daughter of Edward II.-
Isabella, eldest daughter of Edward III.-Joanna, second daughter of Edward III.-
Blanche, third daughter of Edward III.-Mary, fourth daughter of Edward III.-Mar-
garet, fifth daughter of Edward III.-Blanche, eldest daughter of Henry IV.-Philippa,
second daughter of Henry IV.-Mary, second daughter of Edward IV.-Cecilia, third
daughter of Edward IV.-Margaret, fourth daughter of Edward IV.

v.4. Anne, fifth daughter of Edward IV.-Catherine, sixth daughter of Edward IV.
-Bridget, seventh daughter of Edward IV.-Margaret, eldest daughter of Henry VII.
-Elizabeth, second daughter of Henry VII.

Hamel, Frank.

The dauphines of France. 1910. Paul.

920.7 Higd

Contents: Jeanne de Bourbon.-Marguerite de Bourgogne.-Jacqueline de Bavière.
-Marie d'Anjou.-Margaret of Scotland.-Charlotte de Savoie.-Marguerite of Aus-
tria.-Catherine de Médicis.-Mary Stuart.-Marie Anne Christine Victoire de Bavière.
-Marie Adélaïde de Savoie.-Marie Thérèse d'Espagne.-Marie Josèphe de Saxe.-
Marie Antoinette.-Marie Thérèse, duchesse d'Angoulême.

Hamel, Frank.

Fair women at Fontainebleau.

1909. Nash.

920.7 Higf

Contents: Visions of fair women. Women of the middle ages. The duchesse
d'Étampes.-Diane de Poitiers.-Catherine de Médicis.-Gabrielle d'Estrées.-Marie de
Médicis and Henriette d'Entragues.-Anne of Austria.-Christina of Sweden.-Marie
[de Mancini], Henriette [of England] and Louise [de la Vallière].-Mme de Montespan
and Mme de Maintenon.-The demoiselles de Nesle and Mme de Pompadour.-Mme du
Barry and Marie-Antoinette.-Empress Josephine.-Helena of Mecklenburg.

Hamel, Frank.

Famous French salons. 1908. Methuen.

920.7 H19

Contents: The Hôtel de Rambouillet; the salon of manners.-La Grande Made-
moiselle; the salon of the court.-Madame de Sévigné: the salon of friendship.-Ninon
de Lenclos; the salon of gallantry.-Madame de Maintenon; the salon of satire.-Madame
Du Deffand; the salon of wit.-Mademoiselle de Lespinasse; the salon of philosophy.-
Madame de Staël; the salon of politics.-Madame Récamier; the salon of literature.

Holt, Emily Sarah.

Memoirs of royal ladies. 2v. 1861. Hurst.

920.7 H74

V.I. Ela de Rosmar, countess of Salisbury.-Alicia de Lacy, countess of Salisbury,
Lincoln, Leicester, Lancaster and Derby, Dame L'Estrange and De Frenes.-Joan Plan-
tagenet, countess of Kent and princess of Wales.-Constance de Navarra, queen of
Castilla, duchess of Lancaster.-Jean Beaufort, queen of Scotland.-Jeanne de Valois,
queen of France, duchess of Orleans and Berry.-Juana de Navarra, queen of Spain,
archduchess of Austria.-Marguerite von Hapsburg, of Austria and Burgundy, queen
of France, princess of the Asturias and duchess of Savoy.

V.2. Marguerite von Hapsburg, continued.-Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency,
princess of Condé.-Marie Casimire Clementine Sobieski, titular queen of England.

Kayserling, Meyer.

920.7 K146

Zsidó nők a történelem, az irodalom és a művészet terén; fordította

Reismann Mária. 2v. 1883.

Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo.

920.7 K33

Female biography; containing notices of distinguished women in

different nations and ages. 1834. Carpenter.

Lungo, Isidoro del.

920.7 L97

Women of Florence; tr. by M. C. Steegmann. 1908. Doubleday.

Contents: Rise of the commune of Florence.-From Dante to Boccaccio.-Beatrice