Catherine Helen Spence
An Autobiography
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664561633
Table of Contents
NOVELS AND A POLITICAL INSPIRATION.
MEETING WITH J. S. MILL AND GEORGE ELIOT.
PREACHING, FRIENDS, AND WRITING.
SPECULATION, CHARITY, AND A BOOK.
BRITAIN, THE CONTINENT, AND HOME AGAIN.
PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION AND FEDERATION.
THE EIGHTIETH MILESTONE AND THE END.
CHAPTER I.
EARLY LIFE IN SCOTLAND.
Sitting down at the age of eighty-four to give an account of my life, I feel that it connects itself naturally with the growth and development of the province of South Australia, to which I came with my family in the year 1839, before it was quite three years old. But there is much truth in Wordsworth's line, "the child is father of the man," and no less is the mother of the woman; and I must go back to Scotland for the roots of my