Marion Harland’sAutobiography

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Marion Harland’s
Autobiography



THE STORY OF A LONG LIFE


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HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
M C M X


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WITH
REVERENT TENDERNESS
THIS SIMPLE STORY OF MY LONG LIFE
IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
MY FATHER


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CONTENTS

CHAP.PAGE
I.
Forebears and Patron Saint
1
II.
Lafayette; Revolutionary Tales; Parents’ Marriage
16
III.
A Country Exile; Death of the First-Born; Change of Home; A Fireside Tragedy; “Cogito, Ergo Sum”
27
IV.
A Berserker Rage; A Fright; The Western Fever; Montrose; A Mother Regained
37
V.
Our Powhatan Home; A Country Funeral; “Old Mrs. O’Hara”
52
VI.
Old-Fashioned Husband’s Love-Letter; An Almost Homicide; A “Slaughtered Monster”; A Wesleyan Schoolmistress
61
VII.
My First Tutor; The Reign of Terror
70
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