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My Life as an Author

by Martin Farquhar Tupper

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  1. 1Chapter I — Preliminary
  2. 2Chapter II — Infancy and Schooldays
  3. 3Chapter III — Young Authorship in Verse and Prose
  4. 4Chapter IV — College Days
  5. 5Chapter V — Orders: And Lincoln’s Inn
  6. 6Chapter VI — Stammering and Chess
  7. 7Chapter VII — Prize Poems, etc.
  8. 8Chapter VIII — Sundry Providences
  9. 9Chapter IX — Yet More Escapes
  10. 10Chapter X — Fads and Fancies
  11. 11Chapter XI — “Sacra Poesis” and “Geraldine”
  12. 12Chapter XII — Proverbial Philosophy
  13. 13Chapter XIII — A Modern Pyramid
  14. 14Chapter XIV — An Author’s Mind: Probabilities
  15. 15Chapter XV — The Crock of Gold, etc.
  16. 16Chapter XVI — Æsop Smith
  17. 17Chapter XVII — Stephan Langton — Alfred
  18. 18Chapter XVIII — Shakespeare Commemoration
  19. 19Chapter XIX — Translations and Pamphlets
  20. 20Chapter XX — Paterfamilias, Guernsey, Mona
  21. 21Chapter XXI — Never Give Up, and Some Other Ballads
  22. 22Chapter XXII — Protestant Ballads
  23. 23Chapter XXIII — Plays
  24. 24Chapter XXIV — Antiquariana
  25. 25Chapter XXV — Honours — Inventions
  26. 26Chapter XXVI — Courtly and Musical
  27. 27Chapter XXVII — F.R.S.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII — Personation
  29. 29Chapter XXIX — Hospitalities — Farnham, etc.
  30. 30Chapter XXX — Social and Rural
  31. 31Chapter XXXI — American Ballads
  32. 32Chapter XXXII — American Visits
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII — Second American Visit
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV — English and Scotch Readings
  35. 35Chapter XXXV — Electrics
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI — The Rifle: A Patriotic Prophecy
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII — Autographs and Advertisements
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII — Kindness to Animals
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX — Orkney and Shetland
  40. 40Chapter XL — Literary Friends
  41. 41Chapter XLI — A Few Older Friendships
  42. 42Chapter XLII — Political
  43. 43Chapter XLIII — A Cure for Ireland
  44. 44Chapter XLIV — Some Spiritualistic Reminiscences
  45. 45Chapter XLV — Fickle Fortune
  46. 46Chapter XLVI — De Beauvoir Chancery Suit: And Belgravia
  47. 47Chapter XLVII — Flying
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII — Luther
  49. 49Chapter XLIX — Final

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