The book was part of Mundell’s “Heroines Library”.
No preface
From chapter I Introduction [7-10]:
[7] […] The number of the world’s martyrs is legion, and in their ranks may be found the names of some of the greatest leaders of thought the world has known. Coupled with these is a multitude of persons of lesser note, many of them poor and of unknown names, including a vast array of women, who, though weak and delicate, unflinchingly endured the horrors of torture, steadfastly maintained their faith, and willingly suffered at the stake. These eternal examples of devotion in the cause of truth and righteousness are our Heroines of Faith. There are others, too, who rightfully claim kindred with them – those who, though they escaped the stake and scaffold, did, by their constancy in affliction and persecution, martyr their feelings and affections that truth might not be hid.
Contents
I. Introduction 9II. Perpetua of Carthage 14
III. The Virgin Martyrs 23
IV. The Good Anne Askew 38
V. The Story of Joyce Lewes 51
VI. The Story of Alice Benden 60
VII. The Martyrdom of Prest’s Wife 66
VIII. A Perth Heroine 73
IX. Before the King 78
X. A New England Martyr 88
XI. The Wife of Bunyan 98
XII. The Story of Agnes Beaumont 109
XIII. The Wife of Baxter 123
XIV. Steadfast 143
XV. In the Killing Time 150