VERY few of the ladies who pass in these pages were lovable, but that was the small price they paid for their boldness. Each in her own way proved the good sense of the Hell hath no fury like a woman with an idea. Not all their ideas have stood time's test, like, for example, the water cure and free-love notions of Mary Gove Nichols. Anne Royall, Frances Wright, Jane Grey Swisshelm, Lucina Umphreville, Delia Bacons, Mary Gove-Nichols, Josepha Hall, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Adah Isaacs Menken, Mary Walker, Lavinia Warren, Ann Eliza Young, Eliza Woodson Farnham