Found in this volume are stories relating to the following women of history: Lais of Corinth; Clodia, the Lesbia of Catullus; Cleopatra; Theodora; Fredegunde; Fiammetta's Prototype; Tullia d'Aragona; Diane de Poitiers; Barbara Blomberg; Marguerite de Valois; Nell Gwyn; Ninon de Lenclos; Athenais, Marquise de Montespan; Wilhelmina von Graevenitz; Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour; Julie de Lespinasse; Pauline Bonaparte; Mademoiselle Georges; Marquise de Paiva; and the Red Tsaritza. Illustrated.