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Subject(s)

• Heroes—Poetry [Browse]
• Heroes—Juvenile poetry [Browse]
• Women heroes—Poetry [Browse]
• Heroines in literature—Juvenile poetry [Browse]

Illustrator

• Thornycroft, Rosalind [Browse]

Author

• Farjeon, Herbert, 1887-1945 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Series

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood. [More in this series]

Notes

• Illustrated title page in colors.
• Printed in Great Britain.
• In verse.
• Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

Contents

• Alexander the Great, B.C. 356-323
• Judas Maccabæus, 2nd century, B.C.
• Julius Cæsar, B.C. 100-44
• Boadicea, 1st century, A.D.
• Charlemagne, 742-814
• Alfred the Great, 849-901
• Brian Boru, 926-1014
• Lady Godiva, 1040-1080
• Hereward the Wake, 11th century
• The [El] Cid, 1040-1099
• Saladin, 1137-1193
• Robert Bruce, 1306-1329
• Robin Hood, 14th century
• William Tell, 14th century
• Timour the Tartar, 1336-1405
• Joan of Arc, 1412-1431
• Christopher Columbus, 1446-1506
• Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
• Sir Francis Drake, 1550-1596
• Sir Philip Sidney, 1554-1586
• Pocahontas, 1595-1617
• Masaniello, 1623-1647
• The Duke of Marlborough, 1650-1722
• Rob Roy [MacGregor], 1671-1734
• Alexander Selkirk, 1676-1723
• Flora Macdonald, 1722-1790
• George Washington, 1732-1799
• [Lord] Nelson, 1758-1805
• Napoleon [Bonaparte], 1769-1821
• [Duke of] Wellington, 1769-1852
• Lady Hester Stanhope, 1778-1839
• Garibaldi, 1807-1882
• David Livingstone, 1813-1873
• Grace Darling, 1815-1842
• Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910
• Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917
• Emmeline Pankhurst, 1858-1928
• [Fridtjof] Nansen, 1861-1930.

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Other title(s)

Heroes and heroines

OCLC

905322830

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