Excerpt from World-Noted Women, or Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages I gladly avail myself, also, of the opportunity now presented, to offer my thanks to those friends, - some, of very recent date, and who therefore deserve the greater acknowledgment, since they assisted one comparative l y a stranger to them, - who, with kindest promptitude, helped me in pro curing sueh literary sources for research as my distance from old familiar native book-haunts prevented my readily obtaining. I must not omit, likewise, to assign the credit of the Joan of Arc where it is due, in stating that it has been contributed by another hand than mine a lady of Philadelphia, widely known in the ranks of litera ture as Grace Greenwood, having supplied the memoir of that glorious but misprized heroine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.