Beacon Lights of History

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Cosimo, Inc., 2009 M01 1 - 420 pages
First published posthumously in 1902, this collection of the lectures of American historian JOHN LORD (1810-1894) is a charming rummage through 6,000 years of European and American history, exploring the past from "the old pagan civilizations" to modern leaders and cultures on both sides of the Atlantic. This replica edition features all the original illustrations, hard to come by in other recent versions. It will delight both readers of history and lovers of beautiful, classic books. Volume VII: "Great Women" covers: [ Heloise and love [ Joan of Arc and heroic women [ Saint Theresa and religious enthusiasm [ Madame de Maintenon: the political woman [ Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough: the woman of the world [ women in literature [ women in politics [ the education of women [ George Eliot: woman as novelist [ and more

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Love the flower of Eden
24
Her laboring at the age of eighty
28
His scepticism
38
Death
47
Loves of Héloïse and Abélard analyzed
50
His brilliant success
64
Hesitation of the king
71
Exalted character
87
Ascendency of Lady Marlborough
193
Voluntary exile of Marlborough
200
Sarah Duchess of Marlborough 221
202
Unhappiness of the Duchess
216
Provençal poetry in its connection with chivalrous senti
228
Her marriage
234
Friendship with Madame de Staël
240
His old age soothed by Récamier
249

Coronation of Charles
88
Incense offered to
97
Declining days of the Duchess
102
Pleasures of the body the aim of Paganism
110
The age of Saint Theresa
116
Catholic theology
124
Inaugurated a new style in literature
132
The Vision of St Therese
132
Birth of Madame de Maintenon
146
Friendship of the King for Madame de Maintenon
153
Fr de S de la Mothe Fenelon
154
Secret of Madame de Maintenons influence
164
Madam de Maintenon
165
66
174
Her death
176
46
178
The Duchess of Marlborough compared with Madame
181
Death of William III
187
Reflections on her career
192
Her death
254
WOMAN IN LITERATURE
263
Literary women
266
HANNAH MORE
278
Madame de Stael
280
GEORGE ELIOT
288
Progress of female education
301
Garrick and His Wife
308
Retirement to Cowslip Green
311
George Eliot
343
Nineteenth Century the age of novelists
346
Appearance education and acquirements
351
Mr Gilfils Love Story
360
The Mill on the Floss
367
Romola
371
Felix Holt
377
Theophrastus Such
384
47
390
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