Elizabeth Anderson

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have read more

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn read more

At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, read more

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.