Agnes Baillie Cunninghame Dunbar

“ This is the way in which short dictionaries should be written. Every article should be made to touch some human sympathy, every date as exact as pains and patience can make it."
From the "Tablet"
"This work is a useful collection of interesting lives of holy women...who in all ages of the Christian era have illustrated God's Church....Much historical information concerning the Middles Ages will be found in the lives of saints of that period." ”

“ With the help of the 'Acta Sanctorum' and a very considerable knowledge of later work, she has compiled an excellent summary of a vast number of lives of female saints. Her survey extends over the whole Church prior to the severance of East and West, the Western Church as a whole up to the Reformation, and the Roman Church afterwards. 80 far as we have been able to test the book, it is very well done, and from the best authorities."
From the "Church Times"
"The present compiler has gone to the best sources....Unquestionably, it will be found to be an exceedingly useful book of reference." ”