Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life
by Alec-Tweedie
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1912]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or m...
Chapters (416)(click to expand)
- THIRTEEN YEARS OF A BUSY WOMAN’S LIFE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PROLOGUE
- PART I CHILDHOOD
- CHAPTER I THE GOLDEN AGE
- PART II GIRLHOOD
- CHAPTER II THE GIRL IS MOTHER TO THE WOMAN
- PART III WOMANHOOD
- CHAPTER III “WOOED AND MARRIED, AND A’”
- CHAPTER IV “A WINTER JAUNT TO NORWAY”
- CHAPTER V “THE TENDER GRACE OF A DAY THAT IS DEAD”
- PART IV WIDOWHOOD AND WORK
- CHAPTER VI WIDOWHOOD AND WORK Labor omnia vincit
- CHAPTER VII WRITERS: SIR WALTER BESANT, JOHN OLIVER HOBBES, MRS. RIDDELL, MRS. LYNN LINTON
- CHAPTER VIII JOURNALISM
- CHAPTER IX ON THE MAKING OF BOOKS
- CHAPTER X THE END OF A CENTURY
- CHAPTER XI MEXICO AS I SAW IT
- CHAPTER XII THE CONTENTS OF A WORKING-WOMAN’S LETTER-BOX
- PART V THE SWEETS OF ADVERSITY
- CHAPTER XIII ABOUT PAINTERS
- CHAPTER XIV ON SCULPTORS AND MODELLING
- CHAPTER XV MORE PAINTERS, AND WHISTLER IN PARTICULAR
- CHAPTER XVI “THEY THAT GO DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS”
- CHAPTER XVII LORD LI AND A CHINESE LUNCHEON
- CHAPTER XVIII FROM STAGELAND TO SHAKESPEARE-LAND
- CHAPTER XIX ON WOMAN NOWADAYS
- CHAPTER XX AMERICAN NOTES
- CHAPTER XXI CANADIAN PEEPS
- CHAPTER XXII PUBLIC DINNERS
- CHAPTER XXIII PRIVATE DINNERS
- CHAPTER XXIV FROM GAY TO GRAVE
- CHAPTER XXV ON JOTTINGS
- CHAPTER XXVI MORE JOTTINGS: AND HYDE PARK
- CHAPTER XXVII BURIED IN PARCELS
- CHAPTER XXVIII WORK RELAXED: AND ORCHARDSON
- CHAPTER XXIX DIAZ
- EPILOGUE QUITE WELL AGAIN
- FOOTNOTES:
- 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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