Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life

Chapter 44: George Harley, F.R.S.; or, The Life of a Harley Street Physician By HIS DAUGHTER

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About This Book

The memoir collects reminiscences and informal essays by a widowed writer covering more than a decade of her life, moving from childhood and girlhood into married life, widowhood, and professional work. It blends personal anecdote with practical reflections on journalism, bookmaking, and the literary scene, plus travel sketches of Norway, Mexico, Iceland and North America. Interludes consider painters, sculptors, theatre, social customs such as public and private dinners, and observations on women’s roles. Arranged in themed chapters and jottings, the book mixes candid domestic detail, cultural commentary, and portrait sketches of contemporaries, concluding with reflective notes on work, adversity, and memory.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

George Harley,
F.R.S.;

or,

The Life of a Harley Street Physician

By HIS DAUGHTER

The Times.—“The authoress is well known by her pleasant and chatty books of travel.... She has succeeded, by a judicious combination of her father’s notes with her own recollections, in producing a readable and interesting memoir.”

Morning Post.—“The memoir contains much interesting reading, tracing as it does the career of a distinguished man of science, who, though he had to struggle for years against almost insuperable difficulties, reached at last a high place in the professional tree and maintained his position there.”

St. James’s Gazette.—“Mrs. Tweedie is to be congratulated both on her subject and on the way she has manipulated it.”