Kate Field: A Record
Childhood and Circumstance
An Interesting Heredity; Family Letters; Mr. and Mrs. Field’s Stage Life; Death of Joseph M. Field; The Mother and Daughter.
EARLY YOUTH.
Aspirations and Studies; Interest in Art and Literature; Ardent Devotion to Music.
FLORENTINE DAYS.
At Villa Bellosguardi; Enthusiasm for Italy; George Eliot and the Trollopes; Walter Savage Landor; At Casa Guidi with the Brownings.
LECTURING AND WRITING.
Intense Energy of Purpose; John Brown’s Grave; Ristori, Fechter, and the Drama; Planchette’s Diary; Death of Eliza Riddle Field.
EUROPE REVISITED.
Among London Celebrities; In Spain with Castelar; Music and Drama; Professor Bell and the Telephone; The Shakespeare Memorial.
A SIGNIFICANT DECADE.
Return to America; Failures and Renewed Effort; The Mormon Problem; Alaska and the Golden Gate; Fame and Friends.
“KATE FIELD’S WASHINGTON.”
A Unique Enterprise; Miss Gilder’s Friendship; Charming Life in the Capitol; The Columbian Exposition; France decorated Kate Field.
CROSSING THE BAR.
A Journey of Destiny; Life and Studies in Hawaii; Noble and Generous Work; The Angel of Death.
IN RETROSPECT.
Universal Appreciation and Love; The Strange Ordering of Circumstance; A Sculptured Cross in Mount Auburn; Death only an Event in Life.