Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Vol. I Contents.
LADY MORGAN’S MEMOIRS:
AUTOBIOGRAPHY,
DIARIES AND CORRESPONDENCE.
VOL I.
Second Edition, Revised.
LONDON:
Wm. H. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE, S.W.
MDCCCCLXIII.
[The Right of Translation and Reproduction is
Reserved.]
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CONTENTS.
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Prefatory Address
1
CHAPTER I.—A Birthday 6
CHAPTER II.—The Christening 11
CHAPTER III.—Impressions of Early Childhood 16
CHAPTER IV.—The National Theatre Music Hall 23
CHAPTER V.—My Education 28
CHAPTER VI.—My Instructors 86
CHAPTER VII.—My Father 40
CHAPTER VIII.—My Father’s Story continued 50
CHAPTER IX.—My Mother 69
CHAPTER X.—Thomas Dermody—the Poor Scholar 85
CHAPTER XI.—My Mother’s Death 93
CHAPTER XII.—After my Mother’s Death 98
CHAPTER XIII.—Kilkenny 113
CHAPTER XIV.—Early Girlhood 123
CHAPTER XV.—At Bracklin 154
CHAPTER XVI.—Bracklin continued 168
CHAPTER XVII—From Bracklin to Dublin 179
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CHAPTER XVIII.—Illustrations of the Autobiography 191
CHAPTER XIX.—Period of 1801 205
CHAPTER XX.—Still a Governess 227
CHAPTER XXI.—After leaving Fort William 241
CHAPTER XXII.—A successful Authoress 257
CHAPTER XXIII.—The Wild Irish Girl 276
CHAPTER XXIV.—Old Irish Hospitality 295
CHAPTER XXV.—A New Friend and a Brother in-law 311
CHAPTER XXVL—Ida of Athens 321
CHAPTER XXVII.—First taste of Criticism 343
CHAPTER XXVIII.—The condemned Felon 353
CHAPTER XXIX—1809—Friends and Countrymen 363
CHAPTER XXX.—Dr. Morgan and Dr. Jenner 372
CHAPTER XXXL—Old Friends and New 383
CHAPTER XXXII.—Baron’s Court 389
CHAPTER XXXIII.—The Missionary 407
CHAPTER XXXIV—Visit to London 419
CHAPTER XXXV.—Lady Morgan painted by herself and Sir
Thomas Lawrence
429
CHAPTER XXXVL—Engaged to be Married 449
CHAPTER XXXVII.—Between Cup and Lip 459
CHAPTER XXXVIII.—Lady Morgan 526
