" In the year 1859 she began to write an autobiography, commencing with her recollections of herself and her surroundings when she was four years old.

R.B. Lewis, M.R. Delany, William Nell, and Catto embellished Negro history; William Wells Brown wrote his Three Years in Europe; and Frederick Douglass, the orator, gave the world his creditable autobiography.

She was not an egotist, and did not leave an autobiography like Trollope, or reminiscences like Carlyle; but she has probably portrayed herself, in her early aspirations, as Madame de Staël did, in the characters she has created.

Her "Life," written by Mr. Roberts and others, is rich with letters, which of themselves form a striking autobiography, revealing the writer's prominent phases of character, her steadfast adhesion to high principles, her progress in the path of literary fame, her wearying of fashionable society, and the gradual consecration of all her powers to the service of God.

We have all read Continental autobiographies, of which the chapters under the general title "Early Years" contained records of fears based upon images implanted in the mind and flourishing there images arising from some childish misapprehension or misinterpretation of some ordinary and perfectly explainable circumstance.

© 28Dec25, A879417. R111438, 28Apr53, Monica Kearney Healy (C) KEELER, ELEANOR The autobiography of an average golfer.

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Mrs. Weldon was also a composer, and she had edited in 1875 Gounod's autobiography and certain of his essays with a preface by herself.

Much of this is avowed autobiography.

It would fain blot out his life and much of his poetry if, without them, it could preserve the best and grandest of his writings,that ill-disguised autobiography which goes by the name of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," in which he soars to loftier flights than any English poet from Milton to his own time.

But when to these aggravating traits he added the vanity of printing an autobiography, exposing a thousand assailable points in his life and character, the temptation was irresistible, and the whole population of Grub Street enlisted in a crusade against him.

By the way, you have sent no autobiographies.

Any one who wishes to understand the movement rather as it originally took shape than in the form which it assumed when accident had deprived it of all its leaders, should carefully study his autobiography.

In yielding to this wish, it must not be supposed that the writer is about to submit an autobiography of himself; nor yet a methodical record of his timestasks which, were he ever so well qualified for, he does not at all aspire to, and which, indeed, he has not now the leisure, if he had the desire, to undertake.

An autobiography of such a man was more needed than that of any other; but we could not expect an autobiography from Shelley.

I've been about four days bringing this autobiography of Mary Marie's to an end.

Rollo bought Mill's autobiography, and I have read the greater part of it.

[Footnote 1: With these words Gotzkowsky closes his autobiography.

He relieved my anxiety about my powers of compiling a stupendous autobiography, and made me forget that writing was a new art, to me, and that I was rather old to try my hand at a new art.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY."It is to be regretted," writes Dr. Edwin James, "that our lamented friend (Mr. Johnston) had not lived to complete his autobiography.