Contents
Family Trees
Preface
1. A Child of Melancholy, 1777
2. Infantile Days, 1784
3. O The Example!, 1787
4. Mistress of a School, 1797
5. So Many Friends, 1799
6. Discontent and Indifferent, 1800
7. Never to Marry, 1800
8. Charity and Mercy, 1805
9. Charity and Lydia, 1806
10. Charity and Sylvia, February 1807
11. The Tie That Binds, July 1807
12. Their Own Dwelling, 1809
13. Wild Affections, 1811
14. Miss Bryant Was the Man, 1820
15. Dear Aunts, 1823
16. Stand Fast in One Spirit, 1828
17. Diligent in Business, 1835
18. The Cure of Her I Love, 1839
19. Sylvia Drake | W, 1851
Afterword
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX