Female Scripture Biographies, volume I

By Francis Augustus Cox (1783–1853), the author of numerous articles including a book of biographies and a history of the Baptist Missionary Society. Including an Essay on What Christianity Has Done for Women. From the Preface: The writer of the following pages is aware of the just celebrity acquired by some of his predecessors in the same line of composition, and he might have felt wholly deterred from pursuing his design, by an apprehension of having been superseded by the elegant and comprehe