edited by Marion Ann Taylor and Heather E. Weir

Preface

Introduction

Part 1: Eve-The Mother of Us All

1 Hannah Mather Crocker
Observations on the Real Rights of Women (1818)

2 Lucy Barton
Bible Letters for Children (1832)

3 Esther Hewlett Copley
Scripture History for Youth (1833) and Scripture Biography (1835)

4 Favell Lee Mortimer
The Peep of Day (1833)

5 Sarah Moore Grimké
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman (1838)

6 Angelina Emily Grimké Weld
Letters to Catherine Beecher (1838)

7 Catherine Hunt Putnam
The Gospel by Moses, in the Book of Genesis; or, the Old Testament Unveiled (1854)

8 E. C. C. Baillie
The Protoplast (1853)

9 Cecil Frances (Fanny)
Alexander "The Temptation" (1854)

10 Sophia Goodrich Ashton
The Mothers of the Bible (1855)

11 Christina Georgina Rossetti
"Eve" (1866) and "A Helpmeet for Him" (1888)

12 Charlotte Maria Tucker (A.L.O.E.)
House Beautiful (1868)

13 Sarah Town Martyn
Women of the Bible (1868)

14 Elizabeth Rundle Charles
Sketches of the Women of Christendom (1880)

15 Etty Woosnam
The Women of the Bible: Old Testament (1881)

16 Ray Frank
"Women in the Synagogue" (1894)

17 Henriette Greenebaum Frank
"Modern Jewish Women" (1894)

18 Julia Wedgwood
The Message of Israel in the Light of Modern Criticism (1894)

19 Lillie Devereux Blake
The Woman's Bible (1895)

20 Elizabeth Baxter
The Women of the Word (1897)

Conclusion

Part 2: Sarah-The First Mother of Israel

21 Sarah Trimmer
A Help to the Unlearned in the Study of the Holy Scriptures (1805)

22 Frances Elizabeth King
Female Scripture Characters: Exemplifying Female Virtues (1813)

23 Sarah Ewing Hall
Conversations on the Bible (1818)

24 Grace Aguilar
The Women of Israel (1845)

25 Rebekah Hyneman
"Sarah" (1846)

26 Elizabeth Fries Ellet
Family Pictures from the Bible (1849)

27 Catherine Hunt Putnam
The Gospel by Moses in the Book of Genesis (1854)

28 Sophia Goodrich Ashton
The Mothers of the Bible (1855)

29 Harriet Beecher Stowe
Women in Sacred History (1873)

30 Etty Woosnam
The Women of the Bible: Old Testament (1881)

31 Julia Wedgwood
The Message of Israel in the Light of Modern Criticism (1894)

32 Clara Bewick Colby
The Woman's Bible (1895)

33 Elizabeth Baxter
The Women in the Word (1897)

Conclusion

Part 3: Hagar-The Wanderer

34 Sarah Trimmer
A Help to the Unlearned (1805)

35 Sarah Hall
Conversations on the Bible (1818)

36 Grace Aguilar
"The Wanderers" (1838)

37 Penina Moise
"Genesis, Chap. XXI" (1842)

38 Susan Warner
Walks from Eden (1866)

39 Charlotte Maria Tucker (A.L.O.E.)
House Beautiful (1868)

40 Sarah Town Martyn
Women of the Bible (1868)

41 Harriet Beecher Stowe
Women in Sacred History (1873) and Footsteps of the Master (1877)

42 Etty Woosnam
The Women of the Bible: Old Testament (1881)

43 Mary Elizabeth Beck
Bible Readings on Bible Women (1892)

44 Harriet Morton
From the Beginning or Stories from Genesis (1893)

45 M. G.
Women like Ourselves (1893)

46 Josephine Elizabeth Butler
The Lady of Shunem (1894)

47 Sarah Elizabeth Turnock
The Women of the Bible (1898)

48 Eloise Alberta Bibb
"The Expulsion of Hagar" (1895)

49 Mary L. T. Witter
Angels (1900)

Conclusion

Part 4: Rebekah-Mother of Two Nations

50 Frances Elizabeth King
Female Scripture Characters; Exemplifying Female Virtues (1813)

51 Lady Morgan
Woman and Her Master (1840)

52 Grace Aguilar
The Women of Israel (1845)

53 Cecil Frances (Fanny) Alexander
"Isaac and Rebekah" (1854)

54 Sarah Hale
Woman's Record (1855)

55 Susan Warner
Walks from Eden (1866)

56 Etty Woosnam
The Women of the Bible: Old Testament (1881)

57 Elizabeth Julia Hasell
Bible Partings (1883)

58 Mary L. T. Witter
The Edomites (1888)

59 Mary Elizabeth Beck
Bible Readings on Bible Women (1892)

60 M.G.
Women Like Ourselves (1893)

61 Ada Ruth Habershon
The Study of the Types (1898)

Conclusion

Part 5: Leah and Rachel-Founder of the House of Israel

62 Adelaide O'Keeffe
Patriarchal Times (1811)

63 Mary Cornwallis
Observations, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Canonical Scriptures (1817)

64 Sarah Hall
Conversations on the Bible (1818)

65 Grace Aguilar
The Women of Israel (1845)

66 Clara Lucas Balfour
The Women of Scripture (1847)

67 Sarah Hale
Woman's Record (1855)

68 Constance and Annie de Rothschild
The History and Literature of the Israelites (1870)

69 Harriet Beecher Stowe
Women in Sacred History (1873)

70 Leigh Norval
Women of the Bible (1889)

71 M. G.
Women Like Ourselves (1893)

72 Elizabeth Baxter
The Woman in the Word (1897)

73 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Clara Bewick Colby
The Woman's Bible (1895)

Conclusion

Part 6: Lot's Wife and Daughters, Dinah, Tamar, Potiphar's Wife-The Other Women of Genesis

Lot's Wife and Daughters

74 Sarah Trimmer
A Help to the Unlearned in the Study of the Holy Scriptures (1805)

75 Mary Cornwallis
Observations, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Canonical Scriptures (1817)

76 Sarah Ewing Hall
Conversations on the Bible (1818)

77 Eliza Smith
The Battles of the Bible (1852)

78 Sophia Goodrich Ashton
The Mothers of the Bible (1877)

79 Charlotte Mary Yonge
Young Folks' Bible History (1880)

80 Etty Woosnam
The Women of the Bible: Old Testament (1881)

81 Mrs. Donaldson
Home Duties for Wives and Mothers, Illustrated by Women of Scripture (1882)

Dinah

82 Sarah Trimmer
A Help to the Unlearned in the Study of the Holy Scriptures (1805)

83 Mary Cornwallis
Observations, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Canonical Scriptures (1817)

84 Sarah Hale
Woman's Record (1855)

85 M. G.
Women Like Ourselves (1893)

Tamar

86 Sarah Trimmer
A Help to the Unlearned in the Study of Holy Scripture (1805)

87 Mary Cornwallis
Observations, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Canonical Scriptures (1817)

88 Sarah Hale
Woman's Record (1855)

Potiphar's Wife

89 Mary Cornwallis
Observations, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Canonical Scriptures (1817)

90 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lillie Devereux Blake
The Woman's Bible (1895)

Conclusion

Bibliography

Subject Index

Scripture Index