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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction to 2014 edition
Preface
List of principal characters
Part I
Chapter 1. ‘I am a little singular in my thoughts of love and friendship; I must have the first place or none’
Chapter 2. ‘A friend whom I love better than all the world beside’
Chapter 3. ‘I am averse to any matrimonial tie’
Chapter 4. ‘A little patience, and all will be over!’
Chapter 5. ‘The shameful incendiary in this shocking affair’
Chapter 6. ‘Without someone to love this world is a desart to me’
Chapter 7. ‘I am a poor forlorn wretch without her’
Chapter 8. ‘How my heart pants to be free’
Chapter 9. ‘A state which is contrary to every feeling of my soul’
Chapter 10. ‘[I] scarcely know what to do with myself’
Chapter 11. ‘The kind of company I find most pleasure in’
Part II
Chapter 12. ‘I am … going to be the first of a new genus’
Chapter 13. ‘I succeed beyond my most sanguine hopes’
Chapter 14. ‘My poverty makes me proud’
Chapter 15. ‘Falling a sacrifice to a passion’
Chapter 16. ‘I shall shut up all my private sorrows in my own breast.’
Chapter 17. ‘A book … in which I myself… shall certainly appear, head and heart’
Chapter 18. ‘We must each of us wear a fool’s cap’
Part III
Chapter 19. ‘How silent is now Versailles!’
Chapter 20. ‘I fear not their knives’
Chapter 21. ‘Mary’s sweetheart affair goes well.’
Chapter 22. ‘The elm by which I wish to be supported’
Chapter 23. ‘Nothing could be more natural’
Chapter 24. ‘Come back quickly to play with your girls.’
Chapter 25. ‘Why have you so soon dissolved the charm?’
Chapter 26. ‘You will, perhaps accuse me of insensibility’
Chapter 27. ‘My soul has been shook’
Chapter 28. ‘Emotions that trembled on the brink of extacy and agony’
Chapter 29. ‘A new page in the history of my own heart’
Chapter 30. ‘Self-applause is a cold solitary feeling’
Chapter 31. ‘Let my wrongs sleep with me!’
Part IV
Chapter 32. ‘There is “sophistry” on one side or other’
Chapter 33. ‘One sex did not take the priority’
Chapter 34. ‘It is not rapture. It is a sublime tranquillity.’
Chapter 35. ‘The inelegant complaint’
Chapter 36. ‘The most extraordinary married pair in existence’
Chapter 37. ‘A husband is a convenient part of the furniture of a house’
Chapter 38. ‘I am in the most natural state’
Notes
Illustrations
Note on the Author
Also by Janet Todd
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