A woman raised in a log cabin on the American frontier marries and finds herself among people whose manners she does not know, first at home and then in England, where her husband seems at ease and she feels adrift. She describes the fear and loneliness of social blunders and how she taught herself the customs that had shut her out.
A short, candid memoir from 1922 about class, confidence and self-education, introduced by the magazine editor Marie Mattingly Meloney. Download the free EPUB.