The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

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1. PORTRAIT OF MARY A. LIVERMORE.. Frontispiece
Engraved from a photograph taken at the age of seventy-five.
2. MRS. LIVERMORE IN HER STUDY IN HER MELROSE
HOME, WRITING THE STORY OF HER LIFE (Full
Page.)........ To facefrontispiece
From a photograph made expressly for this book. For the last twenty-eight
years Mrs. Livermore has done all her literary work in this room.
3. ORNAMENTAL HEADING AND INITIAL LETTER TO PREFACE. 7
4. ENGRAVED AUTOGRAPH OF MARY A. LIVERMORE... 12
5. ORNAMENTAL HEADING TO LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS... 13
6. ORNAMENTAL HEADING TO CONTENTS..... 19
7. ORNAMENTAL HEADING TO CHAPTER I.... 35
8. ORNAMENTAL INITIAL LETTER TO CHAPTER I... 35
9. THE OLD NORTH CHURCH, BOSTON, AND ITS HISTORIC BELLS 43
10. OLD NEW ENGLAND DOOR-KNOCKER..... 44
11. OLD NEW EPGLAND DOOR-KNOCKER..... 44
12. A NEW ENGLAND FIRE-PLACE OF SEVENTY YEARS AGO. 46
13. THE TOWN CRIER......... 49
14. THE NIGHT WATCHMAN...... 51
15. AN OLD NEW ENGLAND FOOT-STOVE.... 53
16. A CHURCH CHORISTER...... 54
17. SPECTERS EVERYWHERE...... 56
Trembling with fright, I clung to my father.
18. DADDY WINSLOW.......... 57
His tread was cat-like, and his everlasting sniff, sniff, sniff betrayed him.
19. THE END OF MY ROBINsON CRUSOE...... 59
I saw it smoulder under the forelog, and then blaze out into a vivid flame.
20. THE CLIMAX OF ONE OF MY CHILDISH THEATRICAL PLAYS. (Full Page.) DESIGNED BY EDMUND H.
GARRETT........ To face 69
The shutters were thrown open simultaneously with a prodigious bang, the
occupant of the tomb threw down the fire-board with a crash, and emerged, clad
in ghostly white.
21. MY FIRST AUDIENCE......... 71
"Preaching to a congregation of sticks.

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