Autobiography 2 Volume Set
Autobiography 2 Volume Set
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USDPublished in 1904, three years before his death, Conway's Autobiography is a peaceful and introspective account of a compelling life. Born to a slave-owning Methodist family in Virginia, Conway (1832–1907) turned away from his roots to become a proponent of anti-slavery, free religion, reform and women's suffrage. Observing and becoming involved in the developments of late nineteenth-century religious, political, scientific, literary and artistic thought, he formed friendships with central figures of the age, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Carlyle, which feature in the work alongside his devoted family life. Volume 1 describes his childhood, education and development in America before the Civil War and his arrival in England in 1863, moving in circles of social, legal and religious reform. Volume 2 covers his time in Europe, witnessing and reporting on the unifications of Italy and Germany, the Franco-Prussian War, and the birth of the Third Republic.
Product details
June 2012Multiple copy pack
9781108050623
850 pages
217 × 140 × 50 mm
1.17kg
2 b/w illus.
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Dedication and preface
- 1. My own people
- 2. Our homestead
- 3. Our servants
- 4. Fredericksburg Academy
- 5. Dickinson College
- 6. Politics in Virginia
- 7. College life
- 8. Education and slavery
- 9. My early ministry
- 10. Rev. Dr Smith, apostle of slavery
- 11. Parting from Methodism
- 12. Summer at Concord
- 13. Concerts and theatres
- 14. Divinity school
- 15. First sermons at Washington
- 16. Ante-bellum Washington
- 17. The slavery issue in Washington
- 18. Settlement in Cincinnati
- 19. Unitarians and slavery
- 20. Art in Cincinnati
- 21. Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati
- 22. 'The rejected stone'
- 23. Residence in Concord
- 24. Foreign complications
- 25. First interview with the Carlyles
- 26. English authors and the American war
- 27. Arrival of my family in England. Volume 2:
- 28. Discussions in London concerning slavery and the negro
- 29. My reviews of Browning
- 30. Settlement at South Place Chapel
- 31. The Taylors of Aubrey House
- 32. Parliament
- 33. Lord Rector Carlyle in Edinburgh
- 34. Ruskin
- 35. 'Artemus Ward'
- 36. Paris
- 37. London scientific circle
- 38. James Anthony Froude
- 39. Belgium at the outbreak of the Franco-German war
- 40. The fete of victory at Berlin
- 41. First visit to Rome
- 42. George Peabody
- 43. Brooke Herford
- 44. Max Müller at Oxford
- 45. Dr Jowett at Balliol
- 46. Anthropology
- 47. Sorby and the spectrum
- 48. Residence at Hamlet House
- 49. London as Mars Hill
- 50. Carlyle–Emerson letters
- 51. Memoranda
- 52. Index.
