An Autobiography. Catherine Helen Spence

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       Catherine Helen Spence

      An Autobiography

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664561633

Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I.

       EARLY LIFE IN SCOTLAND.

       CHAPTER II.

       TOWARDS AUSTRALIA.

       CHAPTER III.

       A BEGINNING AT SEVENTEEN

       CHAPTER IV.

       LOVERS AND FRIENDS.

       CHAPTER V.

       NOVELS AND A POLITICAL INSPIRATION.

       CHAPTER VI.

       A TRIP TO ENGLAND.

       CHAPTER VII.

       MELROSE REVISITED.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       I VISIT EDINBURGH AND LONDON.

       CHAPTER IX.

       MEETING WITH J. S. MILL AND GEORGE ELIOT.

       CHAPTER X.

       RETURN FROM THE OLD COUNTRY.

       CHAPTER XI

       WARDS OF THE STATE.

       CHAPTER XII.

       PREACHING, FRIENDS, AND WRITING.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       MY WORK FOR EDUCATION.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       SPECULATION, CHARITY, AND A BOOK.

       CHAPTER XV.

       JOURNALISM AND POLITICS.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       SORROW AND CHANGE.

       CHAPTER XVII.

       IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA.

       CHAPTER XVIII.

       BRITAIN, THE CONTINENT, AND HOME AGAIN.

       CHAPTER XIX.

       PROGRESS OF EFFECTIVE VOTING.

       CHAPTER XX.

       WIDENING INTERESTS.

       CHAPTER XXI

       PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION AND FEDERATION.

       CHAPTER XXII.

       A VISIT TO NEW SOUTH WALES.

       CHAPTER XXIII.

       MORE PUBLIC WORK.

       CHAPTER XXIV.

       THE EIGHTIETH MILESTONE AND THE END.

CHAPTER I.

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EARLY LIFE IN SCOTLAND.

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      Sitting down at the age of eighty-four to give an account of my life, I feel that it connects itself naturally with the growth and development of the province of South Australia, to which I came with my family in the year 1839, before it was quite three years old. But there is much truth in Wordsworth's line, "the child is father of the man," and no less is the mother of the woman; and I must go back to Scotland for the roots of my