# An Autobiography

Author: Butler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson), 1846-1933

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41638

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=An+Autobiography+Butler&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I was born at the pretty “Villa Claremont,” just outside Lausanne and overlooking Lake Leman. I made a good start with the parents Providence gave me. My father, cultured, good, patient, after he left Cambridge set out on the “Grand Tour,” and after his unsuccessful attempt to enter Parliament devoted his leisure to my and my younger sister’s education. Yes, he began with our first strokes, our “pot-hooks and hangers,” our two-and-two make four; nor did his tuition really cease till, entering on matrimony, we left the paternal roof. He adopted, in giving us our lessons, the principle of “a little and often,” so that we had two hours in the morning and no lessons in the afternoon, only bit...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/7/index.md)
- [did. We all met at the house of the Syrian postmaster, where he and his](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-41638/chapters/17/index.md)