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Cousin Alice: a memoir of Alice B. Haven

Cornelia Holroyd Bradley Richards · 1865 · Scanned text · Free in the US

79,775 words · about 5 h 35 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Author
Cornelia Holroyd Bradley Richards
Language
English
Published
1865
Length
79,775 words · about 5 h 35 min
Sections
13 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (13)

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Front matter

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

MEMOIR OF ALICE B. HAVEN.* l\

NEW YORK: D. APPLETOif AND COMPANY

Chapter I.— Introductory

n. — Childhood, ...» m.— School Life, IV.— Her Marriage, V. — The Young Wife, .

VI.— The First Year of Widowhood, Vn. — The Struggle,

Vni.— The Tenor of her Life in Philadelphia, IX.— Her Life in Philadelphia (continued), X.— WiNTFJi IN Charleston, XI.— The Struggle Ending,

PART n.

HOME LIFE.

Cjupier I. — Second Marriage,

n. — ^New Experiences, .

PAGB

12 CONTENTS.

PAGE

Chap. III. — Ideas of Life Work, . . . 1'70 IV. — The Spring in Nashville, . . .183

V. — Return to the North, . . . 195

VI. — Introduction to her Last Journal, . 204

VII.— Her Sabbath, . . . . 214

VIII. — Confirmed Faith, . . . .225

IX. — Leaving Locust Cottage, , . 238

Part III. Beady For Best

Chapter I. — The Willows, .... 249

n. — Journal and Letters, . . . 260

IV. — Winters in Florida and Santa Cruz, . 285

VI. — Her First Illness, . . . 315

VII. — An Interval op Health, . . . 330

VIII. — Her Last Journal, • . . 345

IX. — Last Letters, .... 358

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