Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman’s Life
by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie
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About this eBook
- Author
- Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel), 1862-1940
- Title
- Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life
- Credits
- Produced by MWS, Brian Wilcox and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel), -1940
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 55263
- Release Date
- August 4, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.THIRTEEN YEARS OF A BUSY WOMAN’S LIFE — By MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.PROLOGUE — PART I CHILDHOOD
- 6.CHAPTER I THE GOLDEN AGE — PART II GIRLHOOD
- 7.CHAPTER II THE GIRL IS MOTHER TO THE WOMAN — PART III WOMANHOOD
- 8.CHAPTER III “WOOED AND MARRIED, AND A’”
- 9.CHAPTER IV “A WINTER JAUNT TO NORWAY”
- 10.CHAPTER V “THE TENDER GRACE OF A DAY THAT IS DEAD” — PART IV WIDOWHOOD AND WORK
- 11.CHAPTER VI WIDOWHOOD AND WORK Labor omnia vincit
- 12.CHAPTER VII WRITERS: SIR WALTER BESANT, JOHN OLIVER HOBBES, MRS. RIDDELL, MRS. LYNN LINTON
- 13.CHAPTER VIII JOURNALISM
- 14.CHAPTER IX ON THE MAKING OF BOOKS
- 15.CHAPTER X THE END OF A CENTURY
- 16.CHAPTER XI MEXICO AS I SAW IT
- 17.CHAPTER XII THE CONTENTS OF A WORKING-WOMAN’S LETTER-BOX — PART V THE SWEETS OF ADVERSITY
- 18.CHAPTER XIII ABOUT PAINTERS
- 19.CHAPTER XIV ON SCULPTORS AND MODELLING
- 20.CHAPTER XV MORE PAINTERS, AND WHISTLER IN PARTICULAR
- 21.CHAPTER XVI “THEY THAT GO DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS”
- 22.CHAPTER XVII LORD LI AND A CHINESE LUNCHEON
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII FROM STAGELAND TO SHAKESPEARE-LAND
- 24.CHAPTER XIX ON WOMAN NOWADAYS
- 25.CHAPTER XX AMERICAN NOTES
- 26.CHAPTER XXI CANADIAN PEEPS
- 27.CHAPTER XXII PUBLIC DINNERS
- 28.CHAPTER XXIII PRIVATE DINNERS
- 29.CHAPTER XXIV FROM GAY TO GRAVE
- 30.CHAPTER XXV ON JOTTINGS
- 31.CHAPTER XXVI MORE JOTTINGS: AND HYDE PARK
- 32.CHAPTER XXVII BURIED IN PARCELS
- 33.CHAPTER XXVIII WORK RELAXED: AND ORCHARDSON
- 34.CHAPTER XXIX DIAZ
- 35.EPILOGUE QUITE WELL AGAIN
- 36.FOOTNOTES:
- 37.INDEX — Mexico as I Saw It By MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE ( née HARLEY) — Through Finland in Carts — Hyde Park: Its History and Romance — Behind the Footlights TWO EDITIONS — George Harley, F.R.S.; or, The Life of a Harley Street Physician By HIS DAUGHTER — A Girl’s Ride in Iceland FOUR EDITIONS — NOTICE — LIVING MASTERS OF MUSIC. — STARS OF THE STAGE — A CATALOGUE OF MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, ETC.
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