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HEROINES THAT EVERY
CHILD SHOULD KNOW
TALES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE
WORLD'S HEROINES OF ALL AGES
CO-EDITED BY
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE
AND KATE STEPHENS
DECORATED BY
BLANCHE OSTERTAG
New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1908
Copyright, 1908, by Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, February, 1908
All Rights Reserved
Including that of Translation into Foreign Languages
Including the Scandinavian
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editors and publishers wish to acknowledge the courtesy of authorsand publishers named below, for the use of certain material in thisvolume: To Mrs. Elizabeth E. Seelye for material adapted forPocahontas, from her volume entitled "Pocahontas" (copyrighted, 1879,by Dodd, Mead & Company); to Messrs. Harper and Brothers and to theEstate of Mr. John S.C. Abbott for material adapted for Madame Roland;to Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Company for material adapted for Alcestis,Antigone and Iphigenia; to Messrs. E.P. Dutton & Company for materialadapted for Lady Jane Grey; to the Macmillan Company for certainmaterial in Paula; to Messrs. Hutchinson & Company, London, formaterial adapted for Sister Dora.
INTRODUCTION
The Book of Heroes should never be separated from the Book ofHeroines; they are the two parts of that story of courage, service andachievement which is the most interesting and inspiring chapter in thehistory of human kind in this wonderful world of ours. Whenever andwherever there has appeared a hero, a heroine has almost always workedwith or for him; for heroic and noble deeds are rarely done withoutsome kind of coöperation. Now and then, it is true, single acts ofdaring stand out alone; but, as a rule, the hero gains his end becauseother men or women stand beside him in times of great peril. Williamthe S