Excerpt from The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: In a Series of Tales

Forty years ago, Tales were written in all the glow of having finished the sixteen years' labor in completing the "Concordance to Shakespeare, " of having seen it published and already accepted into public favor.

In entire contrast with the strictly verbal work thus effected, these stories of pure imagination and sentiment presented themselves to their author's thought as an attempt likely to further her desire of still promoting the study and enjoyment of our great Poet Teacher, and prove one of the many incentives thereto which have produced so remarkable and so general an increase of love and reverence for his genius during the last half century.

This increase, with added comprehension of the full extent of that genius, and of its infinite suggestions, has elicited a desire for a New Edition of "The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, " a desire which gives its Author liveliest satisfaction, in the thought that now a fresh generation will read these Tales and - she hopes - will feel something of the pleased interest she felt while inventing and penning them.

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