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