Mary Washington.--Mother of Mendelsohn.--Mother of Napoleon.--Monica, mother of St. Augustine.--Abraham Lincoln's mother.--Charles Dicken's mother.--Mother of Wesley.--Charles Lamb's mother.--Thackeray's mother.--Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi.--Lord Byron's mother.--Mother of Rev. John Newton.--Mother of Martin Luther.--Mother of Stonewall Jackson.--Mother of Cowper.--Mother of Goethe.--Mother of the Napiers.--Jean Paul Richter's mother.--Madame Necker, the mother of Madame de Staël.--Mother and wife of Shakspeare.--Mother of Beethoven.--Mother of Sheridan.--Frances Trollope.--Lady Beaconsfield.--Mother of Garfield.--Mother of Alexander von Humboldt.--Wife of Lord William Russell.--Mother of Lamartine.--Milton's Wives.--Mother of Carlyle.--Johnson's mother and wife.--Mothers of antiquity.--Marie Antoinette as wife and mother.--Mother of Burns.--Short sketches of some wives and mothers.--Abigail Adams