قراءة كتاب Marion Harland's Autobiography The Story of a Long Life

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Marion Harland's Autobiography The Story of a Long Life

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Marion Harland’s
Autobiography

THE STORY OF A LONG LIFE

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

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

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
VIII.	Calm After Storm; Our Handsome Yankee Governess; The Nascent Author	84
IX.	A College Neighborhood; The World Widens; A Beloved Tutor; Colonization Dreams and Disappointment; Major Morton	90
X.	Family Letters; Commencement at Hampden-Sidney; Then and Now	104
XI.	Back in Powhatan; Old Virginia Housewifery; A Singing-Class in the Forties; The Simple Life?	110
XII.	Election Day and a Democratic Barbecue	117
XIII.	A Whig Rally and Muster Day	129
XIV.	Rumors of Changes; A Corn-Shucking; A Negro Topical Song	143
XV.	The Country Girls at a City School; Velvet Hats and Clay’s Defeat	149
XVI.	Home at Christmas; A Candy-Pull and Hog-Killing	162
XVII.	A Notable Affair of Honor	171
XVIII.	The Menace of Slave Insurrection	186
XIX.