The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott

by William Hale White

Transcribed from the 1913 Hodder and Stoughton edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

THE
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
MARK RUTHERFORD

EDITED BY HIS FRIEND
REUBEN SHAPCOTT

HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO

[All rights reserved]

CONTENTS

	PAGE
CHAPTER I
Childhood	[13]
CHAPTER II
Preparation	[33]
CHAPTER III
Water Lane	[57]
CHAPTER IV
Edward Gibbon Mardon	[84]
CHAPTER V
Miss Arbour	[107]
CHAPTER VI
Ellen and Mary	[138]
CHAPTER VII
Emancipation	[173]
CHAPTER VIII
Progress in Emancipation	[194]
CHAPTER IX
Oxford Street	[215]

PREFACE
TO THE SECOND EDITION

The present edition is a reprint of the first, with corrections of several mistakes which had been overlooked.

There is one observation which I may perhaps be permitted to make on re-reading after some years this autobiography. Rutherford, at any rate in his earlier life, was an example of the danger and the folly of cultivating thoughts and reading books to which he was not equal, and which tend to make a man lonely.