Some Famous Women

Author(s): Louise Creighton

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Christianity - Biographies

Narrators: Pamela Nagami

Number of Chapters: 17

Length: 04 hours and 43 minutes

Language: English

Louise Creighton (1850-1936) was a British author and women's rights activist. The wife of the Anglican bishop of London, she was the mother of seven children. In this short book, Creighton gives us chapters on such well-known women as Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale, and Queen Victoria. But we also learn about St. Hilda, the 7th century royal princess who became an influential abbess, the prison reformer, Elizabeth Fry, and Isabella Bird, who thrilled Victorian readers with accounts of her lone travels on horseback to remote and perilous places. - Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.