CONTENTS.
| I. SALLY BUSH—ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S GOOD STEP-MOTHER. | ||
Thomas Lincoln's farm—Primeval Indiana—Beauty of the land—The Lincoln log cabin—The want of furniture—The children neglected—How they were subsisted—Death of Abraham's mother—Thomas Lincoln courts a new wife—Her arrival in Indiana—Reforms the household—Takes care of the children—Makes a man of Abe—His gratitude to her—He visits her after his election to the Presidency—Her opinion of him—Her grave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| II. THE BRONTË SISTERS. | ||
The Rev. Patrick Brontë—The family at the parsonage—The father's violent temper—The six little children—Death of their mother—Aunt Branwell takes charge of the family—The deadly boarding-school—Charlotte's friend, Miss Ellen Nussey—Emily a teacher—Charlotte and Emily at Brussels—Emily's homesick poem—Branwell Brontë—The bed on fire—The book of poems—Novels of the three sisters—"The Professor" declined—"Jane Eyre"—Its great success—"Agnes Grey" and "Wuthering Heights"—Branwell's illness and death—Death of Emily—"Shirley" published—Charlotte and Miss Martineau—"Villette"—Charlotte's marriage and death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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