FEMALE WARRIORS.
FEMALE WARRIORS.
MEMORIALS OF
_FEMALE VALOUR AND HEROISM, FROM THE MYTHOLOGICAL AGES TO THE PRESENT
ERA._
BY ELLEN C. CLAYTON (_MRS. NEEDHAM_),
AUTHOR OF "QUEENS OF SONG," "ENGLISH FEMALE ARTISTS," ETC.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND.
1879.
[_All Rights Reserved._]
PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND CO.,
10, LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS.
THIS SHORT RECORD IS
Dedicated,
IN TOKEN OF AFFECTION AND ESTEEM,
TO
MADAME RONNIGER.
CONTENTS.
Page
CHAPTER I.
Mythology--Warlike Goddesses--The Amazons--The Sarmatians--The
Machlyes and Auses--The Zaveces--More Modern Tribes of Amazons
in Asia and Africa 1