Marion Harland's Autobiography. Marion Harland

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066233846

Table of Contents

       FOREWORD

       I FOREBEARS AND PATRON SAINT

       II LAFAYETTE—REVOLUTIONARY TALES—PARENTS’ MARRIAGE

       III A COUNTRY EXILE—DEATH OF THE FIRST-BORN—CHANGE OF HOME—A FIRESIDE TRAGEDY—“COGITO, ERGO SUM.”

       IV A BERSERKER RAGE—A FRIGHT—THE WESTERN FEVER—MONTROSE—A MOTHER REGAINED

       V OUR POWHATAN HOME—A COUNTRY FUNERAL—“OLD MRS. O’HARA.”

       VI OLD-FASHIONED HUSBAND’S LOVE-LETTER—AN ALMOST HOMICIDE—“SLAUGHTERED MONSTER”—A WESLEYAN SCHOOLMISTRESS.

       VII MY FIRST TUTOR—THE REIGN OF TERROR

       VIII CALM AFTER STORM—OUR HANDSOME YANKEE GOVERNESS—THE NASCENT AUTHOR

       IX A COLLEGE NEIGHBORHOOD—THE WORLD WIDENS—A BELOVED TUTOR—COLONIZATION DREAMS AND DISAPPOINTMENT—MAJOR MORTON

       X FAMILY LETTERS—COMMENCEMENT AT HAMPDEN-SIDNEY—THEN AND NOW

       XI BACK IN POWHATAN—OLD VIRGINIA HOUSEWIFERY—A SINGING-CLASS IN THE FORTIES—THE SIMPLE LIFE?

       XII ELECTION DAY AND A DEMOCRATIC BARBECUE

       XIII A WHIG RALLY AND MUSTER DAY

       XIV RUMORS OF CHANGES—A CORN-SHUCKING—NEGRO TOPICAL SONG

       XV THE COUNTRY GIRLS AT A CITY SCHOOL—VELVET HATS AND CLAY’S DEFEAT

       XVI HOME AT CHRISTMAS—A CANDY-PULL AND HOG-KILLING

       XVII A NOTABLE AFFAIR OF HONOR

       XVIII THE MENACE OF SLAVE INSURRECTION

       XIX WEDDING AND BRIDESMAID—THE ROUTINE OF A LARGE FAMILY—MY FIRST BEREAVEMENT

       XX OUR TRUE FAMILY GHOST-STORY

       XXI TWO MONUMENTAL FRIENDSHIPS

       XXII THE “OLD AFRICAN CHURCH”

       XXIII HOW “ALONE” CAME TO BE

       XXIV THE DAWNING OF LITERARY LIFE

       XXV BROUGHT FACE TO FACE WITH MY FATE

       XXVI LITERARY WELL-WISHERS—GEORGE D. PRENTICE—MRS. SIGOURNEY—GRACE GREENWOOD—H. W. LONGFELLOW—JAMES REDPATH—“THE WANDERING JEW”

       XXVII MY NORTHERN KINSPEOPLE—“QUELQU’UN” AND A LIFELONG FRIENDSHIP

       XXVIII MY FIRST OPERA—“PETER PARLEY”—RACHEL AS “CAMILLE”—BAYARD TAYLOR—T. B. ALDRICH—G. P. MORRIS—MARIA CUMMINS—MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY

       XXIX ANNA CORA (MOWATT) RITCHIE—EDWARD EVERETT—GOVERNOR WISE—A MEMORABLE DINNER-PARTY

       XXX A MUSICAL CONVENTION—GEORGE FRANCIS ROOT—WHEN “THE SHINING SHORE” WAS FIRST SUNG—THE HALLELUJAH CHORUS—BETROTHAL—DEMPSTER IN HIS OLD AGE

       XXXI WEDDING BELLS—A BRIDAL TOUR—A DISCOVERED RELATIVE—A NOBLE LIFE

       XXXII PARSONAGE LIFE—WILLIAM WIRT HENRY—HISTORIC SOIL—JOHN RANDOLPH—THE LAST OF THE RANDOLPHS

       XXXIII PLANTATION PREACHING—COLORED COMMUNICANTS—A “MIGHTY MAN IN PRAYER”

       XXXIV MY NOVITIATE AS A PRACTICAL HOUSEWIFE—MY COOK “GETS HER HAND OUT”—INCEPTION OF “COMMON SENSE IN THE HOUSEHOLD”

       XXXV THE STIRRED “NEST AMONG THE OAKS”—A CRUCIAL CRISIS

       XXXVI MIGRATION NORTHWARD—ACCLIMATION—ALBERT EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, IN NEW YORK—POLITICAL PORTENTS

       XXXVII THE PANIC OF ’61—A VIRGINIA VACATION—MUTTERINGS OF COMING STORM

       XXXVIII THE FOURTEENTH OF APRIL, 1861, IN RICHMOND

       XXXIX “THE LAST THROUGH TRAIN FOR FOUR YEARS”

       XL DOMESTIC SORROWS AND NATIONAL STORM AND STRESS—FRIENDS, TRIED AND TRUE

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