  | PAGE | | Prologue | 3 | | PART I | | CHILDHOOD | | CHAPTER | | | I. | The Golden Age | 11 | | PART II | | GIRLHOOD | | II. | The Girl is Mother to the Woman | 25 | | PART III | | WOMANHOOD | | III. | “Wooed and Married, and a’” | 37 | | IV. | “A Winter Jaunt to Norway” | 49 | | V. | “The Tender Grace of a Day that is Dead” | 58 | | PART IV | | WIDOWHOOD AND WORK | | VI. | Widowhood and Work | 65 | | VII. | Writers: Sir Walter Besant, John Oliver Hobbes, Mrs. Riddell, Mrs. Lynn Linton | 80 | | VIII. | Journalism | 94 | | IX. | On the Making of Books | 107 | | X. | The End of a Century | 116 | | XI. | Mexico as I Saw It | 123 | | XII. | The Contents of a Working-woman’s Letter-box | 133 | | PART V | | THE SWEETS OF ADVERSITY | | XIII. | Painters | 145 | | XIV. | Sculptors | 161 | | XV. | More Painters, and Whistler in Particular | 168 | | XVI. | “They that go down to the Sea in Ships” | 180 | | XVII. | Lord Li and a Chinese Luncheon | 188 | | XVIII. | From Stageland to Shakespeare-land | 199 | | XIX. | Woman Nowadays | 209 | | XX. | American Notes | 224 | | XXI. | Canadian Peeps | 241 | | XXII. | On Public Dinners | 256 | | XXIII. | Private Dinners | 270 | | XXIV. | From Gay to Grave | 283 | | XXV. | Jottings | 298 | | XXVI. | More Jottings: and Hyde Park | 310 | | XXVII. | Buried in Parcels | 319 | | XXVIII. | Work Relaxed: and Orchardson | 333 | | XXIX. | Diaz—Farewell | 349 | | Epilogue | 356 | | Index | 359 |
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