Superwomen
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77
1916
English
- Foreword
- Lola Montez, the Dancer who kicked over a Throne
- Ninon de L'Enclos, premiere Siren of two Centuries
- Peg Woffington, Irish Heart Conjurer
- Helen of Troy, Model for all the Sirens of the Centuries
- Madame Jumel, New York's first official Heart Breaker
- Adrienne Lecouvreur, the 'Actress Heart Queen'
- Cleopatra, 'the Serpent of old Nile'
- George Sand, the hopelessly ugly Siren
- Madame du Barry, the Seven-Million-Dollar Siren
- 'The most gorgeous Lady Blessington'
- Madame Recamier, the frozen-hearted Angel
- Lady Hamilton, Patron Saint of Dime-Novel Heroines
In this 1916 work, Albert Payson Terhune introduces twelve immensely influential women, whose actions influenced world history. Terhune chooses well-known figures whose stories are as much myth as history, like Cleopatra and Helen of Troy, artists such as George Sand, and a number of ladies whose names are not so well-known today, because their work was not immediately visible to the uninitiated. All stories will be interested to the modern feminist, and each reader and listener should be able to find a personal heroine among these select twelve. - Summary by Carolin
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