Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life

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Marion Harland’s Autobiography
THE STORY OF A LONG LIFE
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON M C M X

Copyright, 1910, by Harper & Brothers ———— All rights reserved ———— Published April, 1910 Printed in the United States of America

WITH REVERENT TENDERNESS THIS SIMPLE STORY OF MY LONG LIFE IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER


From the time when, as a mere baby, I dreamed myself to slumber every night by “making up stories,” down to the present hour, every human life with which I have been associated, or of which I had any intimate knowledge, has been to me a living story. All interest me in some measure. Many enlist my sympathy and fascinate the imagination as no tale that is avowedly fictitious has ever bewitched me.