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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eral in politics, and an adherent and friend of Gladstone.
Mrs. Taylor was a lifelong and valued friend of George
Eliot. In the autobiography of this great woman, arranged
by Mr. John Cross, in which the story of her life is told by
extracts from her letters and journals, at IMrs. Taylor's suggestion, there are many interesting letters written by
George Eliot to Mrs. Taylor, which reveal their mutual love
and faith in one another. Mrs. Taylor stood firmly by the
friend of her early days, to the last, defending and upholding her against all hostile critics, and glorying in the fame
which crowned her first among the literary English women
of the time.
Among the guests whom we met at Mrs. Taylor's were
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bright, and Miss Caroline Biggs, editor
of the Englishwomen's Magazine; Miss Helen Taylor, the
gifted step-daughter of John Stuart Mill; Hon. Duncan
MacLaren, member of Parliament from Edinburgh; and his
lovely wife, Mrs. Priscilla MacLaren, the sister of John and
Jacob Bright; the Ashworths; the Stansfelds; the Ashursts;
Miss Lydia Becker, the leader, among women, of the English Woman Suffrage movement and the editor of the
"Suffrage Journal"; Mrs. Josephine E. Butler, who had
temporarily abandoned her studies, and her work, for the
higher education of women, that she might lead the increasing opposition to the "Contagious Diseases' Acts" of England, which were fearfully inimical to women of the lowest
class; Madame Venturi, the friend and biographer of
Mazzini, the Italian patriot; and Mrs. Margaret Lucas,
another sister of the Brights, who was the president of the
British Women's Temperance Association until her death,
when she was succeeded by Lady Henry Somerset, who has
already won the regard of the world by her noble deeds
and courageous leadership.