Chapters include: Heloise - Love, Joan of Arc - Heroic Women, Saint Theresa - Religious Enthusiasm, Madame de Maintenon - The Political Woman, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough - The Woman of the World, Madame Recamier - The Woman of Society, Madame de Stael - Woman in Literature, Hannah More - Education of Woman, and George Eliot - Woman as Novelist.