LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY
TORONTO: BELL & COCKBURN. MCMXII
THIRD EDITION
WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
|---|---|---|
| Prologue | [3] | |
| PART I | ||
| CHILDHOOD | ||
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | The Golden Age | [11] |
| PART II | ||
| GIRLHOOD | ||
| II. | The Girl is Mother to the Woman | [25] |
| PART III | ||
| WOMANHOOD | ||
| III. | “Wooed and Married, and a’” | [37] |
| IV. | “A Winter Jaunt to Norway” | [49] |
| V. | “The Tender Grace of a Day that is Dead” | [58] |
| PART IV | ||
| WIDOWHOOD AND WORK | ||
| VI. | Widowhood and Work | [65] |
| VII. | Writers: Sir Walter Besant, John OliverHobbes, Mrs. Riddell, Mrs. Lynn Linton | [80] |
| VIII. | Journalism | [94] |
| IX. | On the Making of Books | [107] |
| X. | The End of a Century | [116] |
| XI. | Mexico as I Saw It | [123] |
| XII. | The Contents of a Working-woman’s Letter-box | [133] |
| PART V | ||
| THE SWEETS OF ADVERSITY | ||
| XIII. | Painters | [145] |
| XIV. | Sculptors | [161] |
| XV. | More Painters, and Whistler in Particular | [168] |
| XVI. | “They that go down to the Sea in Ships” | [180] |
| XVII. | Lord Li and a Chinese Luncheon | [188] |
| XVIII. | From Stageland to Shakespeare-land | [199] |
| XIX. | Woman Nowadays | [209] |
| XX. | American Notes | [224] |
| XXI. | Canadian Peeps | [241] |
| XXII. | On Public Dinners | [256] |
| XXIII. | Private Dinners | [270] |
| XXIV. | From Gay to Grave | [283] |
| XXV. | Jottings | [298] |
| XXVI. | More Jottings: and Hyde Park | [310] |
| XXVII. | Buried in Parcels | [319] |
| XXVIII. | Work Relaxed: and Orchardson | [333] |
| XXIX. | Diaz—Farewell | [349] |
| Epilogue | [356] | |
| Index | [359] | |