Table of Contents

Part V. Single Life: 1. Prospect and retrospect; 2. Influence of the Abbé Kinsella; 3. Mrs Cunningham; 4. Weeds and Wildflowers; 5. Rosina Wheeler; 6. The Nouvelle Héloïse; 7. Return to England; Part VI. Unprofessional Authorship: 1. 'O'Niel'; 2. Glenallan; 3. Sketches and studies; 4. Falkland; Part VII. Matrimony and Professional Authorship: 1. Uncertainty and dejection; 2. Engaged; 3. Married; 4. Woodcot; 5. Life at Woodcot; 6. Estrangement between mother and son; 7. Drudgery; 8. Pelham; 9. Birth of a daughter and publication of The Disowned; 10. Reconciliation with his mother, and removal to London; 11. Effect of the literary upon the married life; 12. Devereux; 13. Paul Clifford; Book VIII. Continuance of Literary and Commencement of Parliamentary Life: 1. Literary susceptibilities; 2. The Vicar of Wakefield; 3. Personal and family incidents; 4. Entry into Parliament; 5. Benjamin Disraeli; 6. Greville; 7. Greville (cont.); 8. Greville (cont.); 9. Greville (cont.); 10. Greville (cont.); 11. Greville (cont.); 12. Greville (cont.); 13. Greville broken off.

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Published in 1883, this two-volume work sheds light on an author who was outsold only by Dickens in his lifetime.