Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life
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THIRTEEN YEARS OF A BUSY WOMAN’S LIFE
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
PROLOGUE
PART I CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER I THE GOLDEN AGE
PART II GIRLHOOD
CHAPTER II THE GIRL IS MOTHER TO THE WOMAN
PART III WOMANHOOD
CHAPTER III “WOOED AND MARRIED, AND A’”
CHAPTER IV “A WINTER JAUNT TO NORWAY”
CHAPTER V “THE TENDER GRACE OF A DAY THAT IS DEAD”
PART IV WIDOWHOOD AND WORK
CHAPTER VI WIDOWHOOD AND WORK Labor omnia vincit
CHAPTER VII WRITERS: SIR WALTER BESANT, JOHN OLIVER HOBBES, MRS. RIDDELL, MRS. LYNN LINTON
CHAPTER VIII JOURNALISM
CHAPTER IX ON THE MAKING OF BOOKS
CHAPTER X THE END OF A CENTURY
CHAPTER XI MEXICO AS I SAW IT
CHAPTER XII THE CONTENTS OF A WORKING-WOMAN’S LETTER-BOX
PART V THE SWEETS OF ADVERSITY
CHAPTER XIII ABOUT PAINTERS
CHAPTER XIV ON SCULPTORS AND MODELLING
CHAPTER XV MORE PAINTERS, AND WHISTLER IN PARTICULAR
CHAPTER XVI “THEY THAT GO DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS”
CHAPTER XVII LORD LI AND A CHINESE LUNCHEON
CHAPTER XVIII FROM STAGELAND TO SHAKESPEARE-LAND
CHAPTER XIX ON WOMAN NOWADAYS
CHAPTER XX AMERICAN NOTES
CHAPTER XXI CANADIAN PEEPS
CHAPTER XXII PUBLIC DINNERS
CHAPTER XXIII PRIVATE DINNERS
CHAPTER XXIV FROM GAY TO GRAVE
CHAPTER XXV ON JOTTINGS
CHAPTER XXVI MORE JOTTINGS: AND HYDE PARK
CHAPTER XXVII BURIED IN PARCELS
CHAPTER XXVIII WORK RELAXED: AND ORCHARDSON
CHAPTER XXIX DIAZ
EPILOGUE QUITE WELL AGAIN
FOOTNOTES:
INDEX
Mexico as I Saw It By MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE (née HARLEY)
Through Finland in Carts
Hyde Park: Its History and Romance
Behind the Footlights TWO EDITIONS
George Harley, F.R.S.; or, The Life of a Harley Street Physician By HIS DAUGHTER
A Girl’s Ride in Iceland FOUR EDITIONS
NOTICE
LIVING MASTERS OF MUSIC.
STARS OF THE STAGE
A CATALOGUE OF MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, ETC.
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