Excerpt from World-Noted Women, or Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages Panama together in a collected form of analytical disquisition, and pictorial illustration, several of the women most noted in the world's eu nals, it is interesting to consider the individuality marking each; and the curious variety of respective distinction, which has set these personages apart, as either renowned or notorious, above the ordinary range-of their sisterhood. In thus considering them, I have taken leave to judge creep tional characters by exceptional rules; and, since this selection was made for me, - not chosen by myself, - I have written upon them with large (not so much allowance, as) construction. 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.

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DIVExplores the relation between nineteenth-century American interest in ancient Egypt in architecture, literature, and science, and the ways Egypt was deployed by advocates for slavery and by African American writers./div