Transcriber’s notes:
Inconsistent hyphenations (everyday/every-day, wastepaper/waste-paper, bathroom/bath-room) have been retained.
On [p39] Miss (Agnes) Bibby’s rejected novel is listed as being written by “Katherine J. Howard Bibby”. This is the only occurrence of “Katherine” in the text and has been left as printed.
On [p177] the punctuation preceding the quotation “How happy could I be with either” has been adjusted to clarify who is speaking.