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Papers for thoughtful girls (Strahan, 1871), by Sarah Tytler, James Burn & Company, William Clowes and Sons, and Strahan & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Beryl's triumph, by Eglanton Thorne (Gutenberg ebook)

Filed under: Women heroes -- Juvenile literature

Heroines every child should know (Grosset & Dunlap, 1908), by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Kate Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
Heroes & heroines (New York: E.P. Dutton, n.d.), by Eleanor Farjeon, Herbert Farjeon, and E. P. Dutton (Firm), illust. by Rosalind Thornycroft (page images at Florida)

Filed under: Women heroes -- Poetry

Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse, ed. by Russell A. Peck (HTML at metseditions.org)

Filed under: Women heroes -- United States

Annual report (The Commission, 1961), by Carnegie Hero Fund Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Women heroes -- United States -- Periodicals

Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. (The Commission, 1907), by Carnegie Hero Fund Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report (The Commission, 1907), by Carnegie Hero Fund Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Heroes -- England

The history of George a Green, pindar of the town of Wakefield. His birth, calling, valour, and reputation in the country. With divers pleasant, as well as serious passages in the course of his life and fortune. (Printed for Samuel Ballard ..., 1706), by N. W. (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Heroes -- England -- Biography

The Hero of the Humber; Or, The History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe, by Henry Woodcock (Gutenberg ebook)

Filed under: Heroes -- England -- Juvenile literature

Gammer Gurton's famous histories : of Sir Guy of Warwick, Sir Bevis of Hampton, Tom Hickathrift, Friar Bacon, Robin Hood, and the King and the cobbler (Wiley and Putnam, 161 Broadway, 1846), by William John Thoms and John Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Explorers -- England

Britain's sea story, B.C. 55-A.D. 1805, being the story of British Heroism in voyaging and sea-fight from Alfred's time to the Battle of Trafalgar, with an introduction tracing the development of the structure of sailing ships from the earliest times (Hodder and Stoughton, 1906), by E. E. Speight and R. Morton Nance (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Martyrs -- England

A Briefe Historie of the Glorious Martyrdom of Twelve Reverend Priests, Father Edmund Campion and His Companions (London: Burns and Oates, 1908), by William Allen, ed. by John Hungerford Pollen (multiple formats at archive.org)
Lives of the English martyrs declared blessed by Pope Leo XIII, in 1886 and 1895. Written by fathers of the oratory, of the secular clergy and of the Society of Jesus (Burns and Oates;, 1904), by Bede Camm (page images at HathiTrust)
The English martyrology, abridged from Fox (Presbyterian board of publication, 1837), by John Foxe and Charlotte Elizabeth (page images at HathiTrust)
Historia aliquot nostri saeculi martyrum (Cartusiae S. Mariae de Pratis, 1888), by Maurice Chauncy (page images at HathiTrust)
The Elizabethan persecution. Did its victims suffer for the old faith of England or for treason? (Harding & More, 1928), by A. Hilliard Atteridge (page images at HathiTrust)
The Catholics of York under Elizabeth (Burns and Oates, 1891), by John Mush and John Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
Lives of the English Martyrs (Longmans, Green and Co., 1914), by John Hungerford Pollen, Edwin Hubert Burton, and Bede Camm (page images at HathiTrust)
Forgotten shrines; an account of some old Catholic halls and families in England, and of relics and memorials of the England martyrs (Macdonald & Evans;, 1910), by Bede Camm (page images at HathiTrust)
A calendar of the English martyrs of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; with an introduction (Burns and Oates, 1876), by Thomas Graves Law (page images at HathiTrust)
Unpublished documents relating to the English martyrs. (Catholic Record Society, 1908), by John Hungerford Pollen (page images at HathiTrust)
Memorials of the English martyrs. (Harper & Brothers, publishers, 1867), by Charles B. Tayler (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of missionary priests and other Catholics of both sexes : that have suffered death in England on religious accounts from the year of our Lord, 1577 to 1684 (Printed by Mark Wardle, No. 84 Spinning-field, Deansgate, for T. Haydock, 16, Tib-Lane, 1803), by Richard Challoner (page images at HathiTrust)
A complete calendar of the English saints and martyrs for every day of the year. (Sands & co., 1902), by William Canon Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
Seventeen Suffolk martyrs (Smith, Suifall Press, 1902), by Nina Frances Layard (page images at HathiTrust)
Martyrs to the Catholic faith : memoirs of missionary priests and other Catholics of both sexes that have suffered death in England on religious account from the year 1577 to 1684 (T.C. Jack, 1878), by Richard Challoner (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of missionary priests, as well secular as regular, and of other Catholics, of both sexes, that have suffered death in England, on religious accounts, from the year of our Lord 1577, to 1684 (Printed [for F. Needham?], 1741), by Richard Challoner (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of missionary priests and other Catholics of both sexes that have suffered death in England of religious accounts from the year 1577 to 1684, carefully collected from the accounts of eye-witnesses, contemporary authors, and manuscripts kept in the English convents and colleges abroad. (T.C. Jack, 1877), by Richard Challoner (page images at HathiTrust)
Lives of the English martyrs declared blessed by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and 1895. (Burns and Oates, 1904), by Bede Camm (page images at HathiTrust)
The mirrour of martyrs : the first and second part ; in a short view, liuely expressing the force of their faith, the feruency of their loue, the wisdome of their sayings, the patience of their suffrings, &c. With their prayers and preparation for their last farewell ; Whereunto are added two godly letters written by Mr. Bradford, full of sweet consolation for all such as are afflicted in conscience. (Printed by E. A. [Edward Allde] for Robert Allot, 1631), by Clement Cotton and John Bradford (page images at HathiTrust)
Bartholomew Legate : the last Smithfield martyr (Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1886), by Florence Gregg (page images at HathiTrust)
Noble martyrs of Kent (Morgan & Scott, 1880), by G. Anderson Miller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The English martyrs. (Catholic Truth Society, 1895), by Richard Challoner (page images at HathiTrust)
The mirror of martyrs in a short vieuu lively expressing the force of their faith, the feruency of their loue, the wisedome of their sayings, the patience of their suffrings, etc. : with their prayers and preparation for their last farevvell : whereunto is added two godly letters written by M. Bradford, full of sweet consolation for such as are afflicted in conscience. (At London : Printed by T.P. for Io. Budge, and are to be sold at his shop at the great south doore of S. Paules, and at Brittaines Bursse, 1613), by Clement Cotton and John Bradford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
A True description of the birth, education, life and death of William Ward, alias Walker, alias Waller, alias Slaughter: who was borne in Cumberland, and exected at Tyburne the 26 of Iuly 1641 : with his confession at the place of execution. (London : Printed by T.H. for Francis Coules ..., 1641) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
The exhortation of Mr. Rogers to his children, which he wrote a few days before his burning; being martyred in Queen Mary's days: Being gody admonitions, fit for a Christian to follow. ([London] : Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger, 1681), by Robert Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
[Relation of sixtene martyrs glorified in England in twelve moneths] [with a declaration, that English catholiques suffer for the catholique religion, and that the seminarie priests agree with the Jesuites / by Thomas Worthington] ([Printed at Doway : By the widow of James Boscard, 1601]), by Thomas Worthington (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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