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Marion Harland

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

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SubjectAuthors, American -- 19th century -- BiographyCONTENTSCHAP.PAGEI.Forebears and Patron Saint1II.Lafayette; Revolutionary Tales; Parents’ Marriage16III.A Country Exile; Death of the First-Born; Change of Home; A Fireside Tragedy; “Cogito, Ergo Sum”27IV.A Berserker Rage; A Fright; The Western Fever; Montrose; A Mother Regained37V.Our Powhatan Home; A Country Funeral; “Old Mrs. O’Hara”52VI.Old-Fashioned Husband’s Love-Letter; An Almost Homicide; A “Slaughtered Monster”; A Wesleyan Schoolmistress61VII.My First Tutor; The Reign of Terror70VIII.Calm After Storm; Our Handsome Yankee Governess; The Nascent Author84IX.A College Neighborhood; The World Widens; A Beloved Tutor; Colonization Dreams and Disappointment; Major Morton90X.Family Letters; Commencement at Hampden-Sidney; Then and Now104XI.Back in Powhatan; Old Virginia Housewifery; A Singing-Class in the Forties; The Simple Life?110XII.Election Day and a Democratic Barbecue117XIII.A Whig Rally and Muster Day129XIV.Rumors of Changes; A Corn-Shucking; A Negro Topical Song143XV.The Country Girls at a City School; Velvet Hats and Clay’s Defeat149XVI.Home at Christmas; A Candy-Pull and Hog-Killing162XVII.A Notable Affair of Honor171XVIII.The Menace of Slave Insurrection186XIX.Wedding and Bridesmaid; The Routine of a Large Family; My First Bereavement196XX.Our True Family Ghost-Story203XXI.Two Monumental Friendships218XXII.The “Old African Church”227XXIII.How “Alone” Came to Be237XXIV.The Dawning of Literary Life246XXV.Brought Face to Face with My Fate254XXVI.Literary Well-Wishers; George D. Prentice; Mrs. Sigourney; Grace Greenwood; H. W. Longfellow; James Redpath; The “Wandering Jew”262XXVII.My Northern Kinspeople; “Quelqu’un” and Lifelong Friendship270XXVIII.My First Opera; “Peter Parley”; Rachel as “Camille”; Bayard Taylor; T. B. Aldrich; G. P. Morris; Maria Cummins; Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney280XXIX.Anna Cora (Mowatt) Ritchie; Edward Everett; Governor Wise; A Memorable Dinner-Party288XXX.A Musical Convention; George Francis Root; When “The Shining Shore” was First Sung; The Hallelujah Chorus; Betrothal; Dempster in His Old Age297XXXI.Wedding Bells; A Bridal Tour; A Discovered Relative; A Noble Life304XXXII.Parsonage Life; William Wirt Henry; Historic Soil; John Randolph; The Last of the Randolphs313XXXIII.Plantation Preaching; Colored Communicants; A “Mighty Man in Prayer”325XXXIV.My Novitiate as a Practical Housewife; My Cook “Gets Her Hand Out”; Inception of “Common Sense in the Household”333XXXV.The Stirred “Nest Among the Oaks”; A Crucial Crisis346XXXVI.Migration Northward; Acclimation; Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, in New York; Political Portents355XXXVII.The Panic of ’61; A Virginia Vacation; Mutterings of Coming Storm363XXXVIII.The Fourteenth of April, 1861, in Richmond370XXXIX.“The Last Through Train for Four Years”382XL.Domestic Sorrows and National Storm and Stress; Friends, Tried and True389XLI.Fort Delaware; “Old Glory”; Lincoln’s Assassination; The Released Prisoner of War399XLII.A Christmas Reunion; A Midnight Warning; How a Good Man Came to “The Happiest Day of His Life”408XLIII.Two Bridals; A Birth and a Passing; “My Little Love”; “Drifting Out”; A Nonpareil Parish417XLIV.Two Years Overseas; Life in Rome and Geneva427XLV.Sunnybank; A New England Parish; “My Boys”; Two “Starred” Names436XLVI.Return To Middle States; The Holy Land; My Friends the Missionaries; Two Consuls in Jerusalem448
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