# An Autobiography

Author: Spence, Catherine Helen, 1825-1910

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4220

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

## Summary

Sitting down at the age of eighty-four to give an account of my life, I feel that it connects itself naturally with the growth and development of the province of South Australia, to which I came with my family in the year 1839, before it was quite three years old. But there is much truth in Wordsworth's line, "the child is father of the man," and no less is the mother of the woman; and I must go back to Scotland for the roots of my character and Ideals. I account myself well-born, for My father and my mother loved each other. I consider myself well descended, going back for many generations on both sides of intelligent and respectable people. I think I was well brought up, for my father a...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-autobiography-4220/chapters/10/index.md)