Mary Virginia Terhune, who wrote novels and household books as Marion Harland, looks back from old age on a life that began in 1830. She tells of her Virginia forebears and Revolutionary tales, a country childhood, an almost-homicide, her first tutor, a beloved bookshop and the slow making of a writer, and of the many people whose lives she always saw as stories.
A vivid memoir of nineteenth-century Southern and literary life by one of America’s most popular domestic writers. Download the free EPUB.