Marion Harland’s Autobiography

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Author

Harland, Marion, 1830-1922

Title

Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life

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Produced by Emmy, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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English

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PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Harland, Marion, 1830-1922

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eBook-No.

49003

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49003

Release Date

May 20, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Marion Harland’s Autobiography
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.FOREWORD
4. 4.I FOREBEARS AND PATRON SAINT
5. 5.II LAFAYETTE—REVOLUTIONARY TALES—PARENTS’ MARRIAGE
6. 6.III A COUNTRY EXILE—DEATH OF THE FIRST-BORN—CHANGE OF HOME—A FIRESIDE TRAGEDY—“COGITO, ERGO SUM.”
7. 7.IV A BERSERKER RAGE—A FRIGHT—THE WESTERN FEVER—MONTROSE—A MOTHER REGAINED
8. 8.V OUR POWHATAN HOME—A COUNTRY FUNERAL—“OLD MRS. O’HARA.”
9. 9.VI OLD-FASHIONED HUSBAND’S LOVE-LETTER—AN ALMOST HOMICIDE—“SLAUGHTERED MONSTER”—A WESLEYAN SCHOOLMISTRESS.
10. 10.VII MY FIRST TUTOR—THE REIGN OF TERROR
11. 11.VIII CALM AFTER STORM—OUR HANDSOME YANKEE GOVERNESS—THE NASCENT AUTHOR
12. 12.IX A COLLEGE NEIGHBORHOOD—THE WORLD WIDENS—A BELOVED TUTOR—COLONIZATION DREAMS AND DISAPPOINTMENT—MAJOR MORTON
13. 13.X FAMILY LETTERS—COMMENCEMENT AT HAMPDEN-SIDNEY—THEN AND NOW
14. 14.XI BACK IN POWHATAN—OLD VIRGINIA HOUSEWIFERY—A SINGING-CLASS IN THE FORTIES—THE SIMPLE LIFE?
15. 15.XII ELECTION DAY AND A DEMOCRATIC BARBECUE
16. 16.XIII A WHIG RALLY AND MUSTER DAY
17. 17.XIV RUMORS OF CHANGES—A CORN-SHUCKING—NEGRO TOPICAL SONG
18. 18.XV THE COUNTRY GIRLS AT A CITY SCHOOL—VELVET HATS AND CLAY’S DEFEAT
19. 19.XVI HOME AT CHRISTMAS—A CANDY-PULL AND HOG-KILLING
20. 20.XVII A NOTABLE AFFAIR OF HONOR
21. 21.XVIII THE MENACE OF SLAVE INSURRECTION
22. 22.XIX WEDDING AND BRIDESMAID—THE ROUTINE OF A LARGE FAMILY—MY FIRST BEREAVEMENT
23. 23.XX OUR TRUE FAMILY GHOST-STORY
24. 24.XXI TWO MONUMENTAL FRIENDSHIPS
25. 25.XXII THE “OLD AFRICAN CHURCH”
26. 26.XXIII HOW “ALONE” CAME TO BE
27. 27.XXIV THE DAWNING OF LITERARY LIFE
28. 28.XXV BROUGHT FACE TO FACE WITH MY FATE
29. 29.XXVI LITERARY WELL-WISHERS—GEORGE D. PRENTICE—MRS. SIGOURNEY—GRACE GREENWOOD—H. W. LONGFELLOW—JAMES REDPATH—“THE WANDERING JEW”
30. 30.XXVII MY NORTHERN KINSPEOPLE—“QUELQU’UN” AND A LIFELONG FRIENDSHIP
31. 31.XXVIII MY FIRST OPERA—“PETER PARLEY”—RACHEL AS “CAMILLE”—BAYARD TAYLOR—T. B. ALDRICH—G. P. MORRIS—MARIA CUMMINS—MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY
32. 32.XXIX ANNA CORA (MOWATT) RITCHIE—EDWARD EVERETT—GOVERNOR WISE—A MEMORABLE DINNER-PARTY
33. 33.XXX A MUSICAL CONVENTION—GEORGE FRANCIS ROOT—WHEN “THE SHINING SHORE” WAS FIRST SUNG—THE HALLELUJAH CHORUS—BETROTHAL—DEMPSTER IN HIS OLD AGE
34. 34.XXXI WEDDING BELLS—A BRIDAL TOUR—A DISCOVERED RELATIVE—A NOBLE LIFE
35. 35.XXXII PARSONAGE LIFE—WILLIAM WIRT HENRY—HISTORIC SOIL—JOHN RANDOLPH—THE LAST OF THE RANDOLPHS
36. 36.XXXIII PLANTATION PREACHING—COLORED COMMUNICANTS—A “MIGHTY MAN IN PRAYER”
37. 37.XXXIV MY NOVITIATE AS A PRACTICAL HOUSEWIFE—MY COOK “GETS HER HAND OUT”—INCEPTION OF “COMMON SENSE IN THE HOUSEHOLD”
38. 38.XXXV THE STIRRED “NEST AMONG THE OAKS”—A CRUCIAL CRISIS
39. 39.XXXVI MIGRATION NORTHWARD—ACCLIMATION—ALBERT EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, IN NEW YORK—POLITICAL PORTENTS
40. 40.XXXVII THE PANIC OF ’61—A VIRGINIA VACATION—MUTTERINGS OF COMING STORM
41. 41.XXXVIII THE FOURTEENTH OF APRIL, 1861, IN RICHMOND
42. 42.XXXIX “THE LAST THROUGH TRAIN FOR FOUR YEARS”
43. 43.XL DOMESTIC SORROWS AND NATIONAL STORM AND STRESS—FRIENDS, TRIED AND TRUE
44. 44.XLI FORT DELAWARE—“OLD GLORY”—LINCOLN’S ASSASSINATION—THE RELEASED PRISONER OF WAR
45. 45.XLII A CHRISTMAS REUNION—A MIDNIGHT WARNING—HOW A GOOD MAN CAME TO “THE HAPPIEST DAY OF HIS LIFE”
46. 46.XLIII TWO BRIDALS—A BIRTH AND A PASSING—“MY LITTLE LOVE”—“DRIFTING OUT”—A NONPAREIL PARISH
47. 47.XLIV TWO YEARS OVERSEAS—LIFE IN ROME AND GENEVA
48. 48.XLV SUNNYBANK—A NEW ENGLAND PARISH—“MY BOYS”—TWO “STARRED” NAMES
49. 49.XLVI RETURN TO MIDDLE STATES—THE HOLY LAND—MY FRIENDS THE MISSIONARIES—TWO CONSULS IN JERUSALEM
50. 50.XLVII LUCERNE—GOOD SAMARITANS AND AN ENGLISHMAN—A LECTURE TOUR—OHIOAN HOSPITALITY—MR. AND MRS. McKINLEY
51. 51.XLVIII THE CLOUDS RETURN AFTER THE RAIN—ABROAD AGAIN—HEALING AND HEALTH—IDYLLIC WINTER IN FLORENCE
52. 52.XLIX THE GOING-OUT OF A YOUNG LIFE—PRESENT ACTIVITIES—“LITERARY HEARTHSTONES”—GRATEFUL REMINISCENCES
53. 53.APPENDIX — THE REV. EDWARD PAYSON TERHUNE, D.D. — A GOLDEN WEDDING

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