This is a biographical work by Mary Hays, the third volume of her "Female Biography." It is a significant early collection of women's lives, highlighting their achievements and contributions.
Sources for Mary Hays — Female Biography, Vol. III
Mary Hays — Female Biography, Vol. III in Women's Literature
Held in the Women's Literature chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Christine de Pizan — The Book of the City of Ladies (1405)
- Anne Bradstreet — The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650)
- Aphra Behn — Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave (1688)
- Mary Scott — The Female Advocate; a Poem (1774)
- Mary Wollstonecraft — A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
- Mary Hays — Female Biography, Vol. I (1803)
- Mary Hays — Female Biography, Vol. II (1803)
- Mary Hays — Female Biography, Vol. IV (1803)
- Mary Hays — Female Biography, Vol. V (1803)
- Mary Hays — Female Biography, Vol. VI (1803)
- Jane Austen — Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Mary Shelley — Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
- Charlotte Brontë — Jane Eyre (1847)
- Emily Brontë — Wuthering Heights (1847)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning — Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
- Sarah Josepha Hale — Woman's Record; or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women (1853)
- Elizabeth Gaskell — North and South (1854)
- Harriet Jacobs — Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
- Christina Rossetti — Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)
- Louisa May Alcott — Little Women (1868)
- George Eliot — Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (1871)
- Olive Schreiner — The Story of an African Farm (1883)
- Emily Dickinson — Poems (1890)
- Ida B. Wells — Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton — The Woman's Bible (Part II) (1898)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman — The Yellow Wallpaper (1899)
- Kate Chopin — The Awakening (1899)
- Edith Wharton — The House of Mirth (1905)
- Edith Wharton — The Custom of the Country (1913)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Herland (1915)
- Lucy Maud Montgomery — The Blue Castle (1926)
- Nella Larsen — Passing (1928)
- Virginia Woolf — A Room of One's Own (1929)
- Elizabeth Gaskell — Cranford (1853)
- Elizabeth von Arnim — The Enchanted April (1922)