Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1889 — The World’s Greatest Women. [ARTICLE]

The World’s Greatest Women.

The Pall Mall Gazette's request for lists of the world’s twelve greatest women has produced this 'collective vote given in order of preference: Joan of Arc 9 St. Theresa 2 G orge Sand 8 Allah Bae 1 Queen Elizabeth 7 Deborah 1 Maria Theresa 6 Helen of Troy 1 G orge Eliot 6 Aspasia 1 Mme. Ro and .6 Mme. de Ma'ntenon.. .1 Cathenn <ot Siena... .5 Monica 1 Sappuo...... 41 Emily Bronte 1 Mrs. Browning 41,)ael 1 Esther 3 Empress Helen I Charlotte Bronte 3 Zenobia 1 Mme de Stael 31 Lady Rachel Russell..! Elizabeth Fry 3 Marguerite of Navarre.! Mary Somerxile 3 Boadicea I Setniratnis. 2|Mma de Sevigne 1 Catherine II 2!Susannah Wesley 1 Isabel a of Castile Stowe i Margaret Fuller 2iJoeephine Butler 1 Mary Wollstonecraft..2lMiss Willard 1 Jane Austen 2 St. Elizabeth of HunMaria licfi-ew0rth,....2 gary ...1 Florence Nightingale. .2 Grace Darling 1 Judith 2 Louise Michel. 1 Cleopatra 2 Mrs. Besa. t 1 Rosa Bonheur 2 Charlotte Corday...... 1 Mrs. 800th...., 2 Hesba Stret.on 1 The Gazette draws up the following list as fairly representative of feminine greatness in all ages: WOMB S OF ACTION. WOMEN OF THOUGHT. Semirainls. Sappho. Quetn Esthe-. Mme. Roland. Maria Theresa. Mme. de Stael. Catherine 11. of Russia. George Sand. Isabella of Castile. iG. orge Eliot. Joan of Arc. Fuller.