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Empresses

Here are entered works on women rulers of empires as well as on wives or consorts of emperors.

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• Lives of Celebrated Female Sovereigns and Illustrious Women (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1870), by Mrs. Jameson, ed. by Mary E. Hewitt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Catherine the Great (A.A. Knopf, 1925), by Katharine Susan Anthony (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rekichō kontokuroku (Ryūbunkan, 1928), by Rekichō kontokuroku Henshūkai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Qing lie chao hou fei zhuan gao : 2 juan (Lü ying hua guan, 1929), by Ertian Zhang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shūyō hōkan, Meiji Ryōheika seitokuki (Hakubunkan, 1919), by Suematsu Kencho (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Avgvstarvm imagines aereis formis expressae ([Paolo Manuzio], 1558), by Enea Vico, Paolo Manuzio, and Natale Conti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imagini delle donne avgvste intagliate in istampa di rame (Appresso Enea Vico parmigiano et Vincenzo Valgrisio all'insegna d'Erasmo, 1557), by Enea Vico and Vincenzo Valgrisi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roman expresses (Walpole Press, 1899), by Jacques Roergas de Serviez (page images at HathiTrust)

• To vivlio tēs autokrateiras Elisavet : phylla hēmerologiou (Ekdotikos Oikos Eleutheroudakēs, 1921), by Kōnstantinos Chrēstomanos (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Empresses of Constantinople, by Joseph McCabe (Gutenberg ebook)

• Two Years in the Forbidden City, by Princess Der Ling
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Two years in The Forbidden city (Moffat, Yard and company, 1911), by Princess Der Ling (page images at HathiTrust)

• Qing di xi hou fei huang zi huang nü si kao : fu nian biao yi zhuan. (s.n., 1917) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• With the Empress Dowager of China. Illus. by the author and with photos. (Century, 1907), by Katharine A. Carl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from China, with particular reference to the Empress dowager and the women of China. (A.C. McClurg & Co., 1909), by Sarah Pike Conger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qing di xi hou fei huang zi huang nü si kao : fu nian biao yi zhuan. (s.n., 1917), by Changshou Wu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• China under the Empress Dowager : Being the history of the life and times of Tzŭ Hsi, by J. O. P. Bland and E. Backhouse (Gutenberg ebook)

• Forbidden City (New York: Crown Publishers, c1954), by Muriel Molland Jernigan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mamzelle Fifine : a romance of the girlhood of the Empress Josephine on the island of Martinique (D. Appleton, 1903), by Mrs. Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, Amy Richards, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tuen, Slave and Empress, by Kathleen Gray Nelson, illust. by William de la Montagne Cary (Gutenberg ebook)

• Josephine (Derby, Miller & Co., 1852), by P. C. Headley and Derby and Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rekichō kontokuroku (Ryūbunkan, 1928), by Rekichō kontokuroku Henshūkai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shūyō hōkan, Meiji Ryōheika seitokuki (Hakubunkan, 1919), by Suematsu Kencho (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The women of the Caesars (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925), by Guglielmo Ferrero and Carrie Chapman Catt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Roman empresses : or, The history of the lives and secret intrigues of the wives of the twelve Caesars, with historical and critical notes (Walpole Press, 1899), by Jacques Roergas de Serviez (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Roman empresses; or, The history of the lives and secret intrigues of the wives of the twelve Caesars, with historical and critical notes. (H. S. Nichols, 1913), by Jacques Roergas de Serviez and Bysse Molesworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'impero e le donne dei Cesari. (Bocca, 1927), by Umberto Silvagni (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lives of the Roman empresses, the history of the lives and secret intrigues of the wives, sisters and mothers of the Caesars (W. H. Wise & co., 1935), by Jacques Roergas de Serviez (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of the Caesars (The Century co., 1912), by Guglielmo Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Römische Kaiserfrauen (J. Guttentag, 1865), by Adolf Wilhelm Theodor Stahr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Römische Kaiserfrauen (J. Guttentag, 1880), by Adolf Wilhelm Theodor Stahr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of the Caesars. (Chautauqua Institution, 1911), by Guglielmo Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le mogli dei dodici Cesari (Nobili, 1820), by Jacques Roergas de Serviez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cesarinas (Pablo Franch, 1893), by Manuel José Quintana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bilder aus dem Alterthumer. (Guttentag, 1863), by Adolf Wilhelm Theodor Stahr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Roman empresses; the history of the lives and secret intrigues of the wives of the twelve Caesars, with historical and critical notes (Printed for members and patrons of the American anthropological society, 1925), by Jacques Roergas de Serviez, Georges Rochegrosse, and Bysse Molesworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of the Caesars (New York : Loring & Mussey, [1935], 1935), by Guglielmo Ferrero and Christian Gauss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The empresses of Rome (Methuen, 1911), by Joseph McCabe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The empresses of Rome. (H.Holt & Co., 1911), by Joseph McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galla Placidia (Hofbuchdruckerei von C.A. Kaemmerer, 1897), by Wilhelm Schild (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roman expresses (Walpole Press, 1899), by Jacques Roergas de Serviez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le donne dei Cesari (in Italian), by Guglielmo Ferrero (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Empresses of Rome, by Joseph McCabe (Gutenberg ebook)
• The women of the Caesars, by Guglielmo Ferrero, trans. by Christian Gauss (Gutenberg ebook)

• Imagini delle donne avgvste intagliate in istampa di rame (Appresso Enea Vico parmigiano et Vincenzo Valgrisio all'insegna d'Erasmo, 1557), by Enea Vico and Vincenzo Valgrisi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Imagini delle donne avgvste intagliate in istampa di rame (Appresso Enea Vico parmigiano et Vincenzo Valgrisio all'insegna d'Erasmo, 1557), by Enea Vico and Vincenzo Valgrisi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divo Caesari Avgvsto Ferdinando II. Bohemiae et Vngariae regi etc. (Marcus Sadeler, 1640), by Ægidius Sadeler, Bernardino Campi, approximately 1488-1576 Titian, and Marcus Sadeler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Avgvstarvm imagines aereis formis expressae ([Paolo Manuzio], 1558), by Enea Vico, Paolo Manuzio, and Natale Conti (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Roomsche keiserinnen : in byschriften vertoond (Te bekoomen by Jan ten Hoorn, boekverkooper, 1688), by Ludolph Smids and Jan Claesz ten Hoorn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Imagini delle donne auguste intagliate in istampa di rame (Presso Giacomo Franco ..., 1600), by Enea Vico (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reliquae augustarum imagines (Franco forma in Frezzaria, 1600), by Enea Vico (page images at HathiTrust)

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