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Originally published in 1913-1916, the pioneering American biographer followed up his Union Portraits with these profiles of some great women of world history. His subjects range from Jane Austen and Mrs. Samuel Pepys (Elizabeth Saint-Michel) to Whig salonista Elizabeth Vassall (the Lady Holland) and the diarist Eugénie de Guérin.
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