# Autobiography of a Child Author: Lynch, Hannah, 1859-1904 Genre: Category: Biographies Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57072 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Autobiography+of+a+Child+Lynch&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The picture is clear before me of the day I first walked. My mother, a handsome, cold-eyed woman, who did not love me, had driven out from town to nurse's cottage. I shut my eyes, and I am back in the little parlour with its spindle chairs, an old-fashioned piano with green silk front, its pink-flowered wall-paper, and the two wonderful black-and-white dogs on the mantelpiece. There were two pictures I loved to gaze upon--Robert Emmett in the dock, and Mary Stuart saying farewell to France. I do not remember my mother's coming or going. Memory begins to work from the moment nurse put me on a pair of unsteady legs. There were chairs placed for me to clutch, and I was coaxingly bidden to to... ## Chapters - [Chapter VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/29/index.md) - [Chapter III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/18/index.md) - [Chapter IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/26/index.md) - [Chapter XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/27/index.md) - [Chapter XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/28/index.md) - [Chapter V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-child-57072/chapters/23/index.md)