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PEN-PORTRAITS OF
LITERARY WOMEN

BY THEMSELVES AND OTHERS

EDITED BY
HELEN GRAY CONE
AND
JEANNETTE L. GILDER

WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES BY THE FORMER.

Vol. I.

CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited,
739 & 741 Broadway, New York.

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This book was suggested by Mr. Mason’s “Personal Traits of BritishAuthors,” published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. With a singleexception—Charlotte Brontë—the editor of that excellent work excludedfrom his pages the literary women of England. The belief that thepublic would find interest in a presen