CONTENTS.
| [PREFACE.] | |
| [CHAPTER I.] Parentage and Childhood. | |
| [CHAPTER II.] Birth of Charles.—Coleridge.—Domestic Toils and Trials.—TheirTragic Culmination.—Letters to and from Coleridge. | |
| [CHAPTER III.] Death of Aunt Hetty.—Mary removed from the Asylum.—CharlesLloyd.—A Visit to Nether Stowey, and Introduction to Wordsworthand his Sister.—Anniversary of the Mother's Death.—Mary illagain.—Estrangement between Lamb and Coleridge.—SpeedyReconcilement. | |
| [CHAPTER IV.] Death of the Father.—Mary comes Home to live.—A Removal.—FirstVerses.—A Literary Tea-Party.—Another Move.—Friends increase. | |
| [CHAPTER V.] Personal Appearance and Manners.—Health.—Influence of Mary'sIllnesses upon her Brother. | |
| [CHAPTER VI.] Visit to Coleridge at Greta Hall.—Wordsworth and his Sister inLondon.—Letters to Miss Stoddart.—Coleridge goes to Malta.—Letterto Dorothy Wordsworth on the Death of her Brother John. | |
| [CHAPTER VII.] Mary in the Asylum again.—Lamb's Letter with a Poem of hers.—Herslow Recovery.—Letters to Sarah Stoddart.—The Tales fromShakespeare begun.—Hazlitt's Portrait of Lamb.—Sarah'sLovers.—The Farce of Mr. H. | |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] The Tales from Shakespeare.—Letters to Sarah Stoddart. | |
| [CHAPTER IX.] Correspondence with Sarah Stoddart.—Hazlitt.—A Courtship and Weddingat which Mary is Bridesmaid. | |
| [CHAPTER X.] Mrs. Leicester's School.—A Removal.—Poetry for Children. | |
| [CHAPTER XI.] The Hazlitts again.—Letters to Mrs. Hazlitt.—Two Visits toWinterslow.—Mr. Dawe, R.A.—Birth of Hazlitt's Son.—Death ofHolcroft. | |
| [CHAPTER XII.] An Essay on Needle-work. | |
| [CHAPTER XIII.] Letters to Miss Betham and her little Sister.—To Wordsworth.—Manning'sReturn.—Coleridge goes to Highgate.—Letter to Miss Hutchinson onMary's state.—Removal to Russell Street.—Mary's Letter to DorothyWordsworth.—Lodgings at Dalston.—Death of John Lamb and Captain Burney. | |
| [CHAPTER XIV.] Hazlitt's Divorce.—Emma Isola.—Mrs. Cowden Clarke's Recollectionsof Mary.—The Visit to France.—Removal to Colebrook Cottage.—ADialogue of Reminiscences. | |
| [CHAPTER XV.] Lamb's Ill-health.—Retirement from the India House, and subsequentIllness.—Letter from Mary to Lady Stoddart.—Colebrook Cottagequitted.—Mary's constant Attacks.—A Home given up.—Board with theWestwoods.—Death of Hazlitt.—Removal to Edmonton.—Marriage of EmmaIsola.—Mary's sudden Recovery.—Ill again.—Death of Coleridge.—Deathof Charles.—Mary's Last Days and Death. | |
| [LIST OF AUTHORITIES.] | |
CHAPTER I.
Parentage and Childhood.