- 1Foreword
- 2I — Forebears and Patron Saint
- 3II — Lafayette — Revolutionary Tales — Parents’ Marriage
- 4III — A Country Exile — Death of the First-Born — Change of Home —…
- 5IV — A Berserker Rage — A Fright — The Western Fever — Montrose — A…
- 6V — Our Powhatan Home — A Country Funeral — “Old Mrs. O’Hara”
- 7VI — Old-Fashioned Husband’s Love-Letter — An Almost Homicide — “Sl…
- 8VII — My First Tutor — The Reign of Terror
- 9VIII — Calm After Storm — Our Handsome Yankee Governess — The Nasce…
- 10IX — A College Neighborhood — The World Widens — A Beloved Tutor —…
- 11X — Family Letters — Commencement at Hampden-Sidney — Then and Now
- 12XI — Back in Powhatan — Old Virginia Housewifery — A Singing-Class…
- 13XII — Election Day and a Democratic Barbecue
- 14XIII — A Whig Rally and Muster Day
- 15XIV — Rumors of Changes — A Corn-Shucking — Negro Topical Song
- 16XV — The Country Girls at a City School — Velvet Hats and Clay’s De…
- 17XVI — Home at Christmas — A Candy-Pull and Hog-Killing
- 18XVII — A Notable Affair of Honor
- 19XVIII — The Menace of Slave Insurrection
- 20XIX — Wedding and Bridesmaid — The Routine of a Large Family — My F…
- 21XX — Our True Family Ghost-Story
- 22XXI — Two Monumental Friendships
- 23XXII — The “Old African Church”
- 24XXIII — How “Alone” Came to Be
- 25XXIV — The Dawning of Literary Life
- 26XXV — Brought Face to Face With My Fate
- 27XXVI — Literary Well-Wishers — George D. Prentice — Mrs. Sigourney…
- 28XXVII — My Northern Kinspeople — “Quelqu’un” and a Lifelong Friendship
- 29XXVIII — My First Opera — “Peter Parley” — Rachel as “Camille” — Ba…
- 30XXIX — Anna Cora (Mowatt) Ritchie — Edward Everett — Governor Wise…
- 31XXX — A Musical Convention — George Francis Root — When “The Shinin…
- 32XXXI — Wedding Bells — A Bridal Tour — A Discovered Relative — A No…
- 33XXXII — Parsonage Life — William Wirt Henry — Historic Soil — John…
- 34XXXIII — Plantation Preaching — Colored Communicants — A “Mighty Ma…
- 35XXXIV — My Novitiate as a Practical Housewife — My Cook “Gets Her H…
- 36XXXV — The Stirred “Nest Among the Oaks” — A Crucial Crisis
- 37XXXVI — Migration Northward — Acclimation — Albert Edward, Prince o…
- 38XXXVII — The Panic of ’61 — A Virginia Vacation — Mutterings of Com…
- 39XXXVIII — The Fourteenth of April, 1861, in Richmond
- 40XXXIX — “The Last Through Train for Four Years”
- 41XL — Domestic Sorrows and National Storm and Stress — Friends, Trie…
- 42XLI — Fort Delaware — “Old Glory” — Lincoln’s Assassination — The R…
- 43XLII — A Christmas Reunion — A Midnight Warning — How a Good Man Ca…
- 44XLIII — Two Bridals — A Birth and a Passing — “My Little Love” — “D…
- 45XLIV — Two Years Overseas — Life in Rome and Geneva
- 46XLV — Sunnybank — A New England Parish — “My Boys” — Two “Starred”…
- 47XLVI — Return to Middle States — The Holy Land — My Friends the Mis…
- 48XLVII — Lucerne — Good Samaritans and an Englishman — A Lecture Tou…
- 49XLVIII — The Clouds Return After the Rain — Abroad Again — Healing…
- 50XLIX — The Going-Out of a Young Life — Present Activities — “Litera…
- 51Appendix
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