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| Portrait of Mary Russell Mitford. (By A. Burt, taken in 1836) | Frontispiece |
| Grove Cottage, Frognal, Hampstead | Preface x |
| The Mitfords’ house in Broad Street, Alresford | 3 |
| Antique girandole | 8 |
| Mary Russell Mitford’s birthplace | 11 |
| Mary Russell Mitford at the age of four years. (After a miniature) | To face 16 |
| The Cross-house | 21 |
| Southampton Street, Reading | 24 |
| The “Walk” by the sea, Lyme Regis | 31 |
| The Great House, Lyme Regis | 35 |
| Old ironwork | 39 |
| The panelled chamber | 41 |
| The drawing-room | 47 |
| Blackfriars Bridge in 1796 | 52 |
| Dr. Mitford’s house in the London Road, Reading | To face 58 |
| Antique ironwork | 65 |
| Hans Place in 1798 | 69 |
| Ceiling decoration (1714) | 81 |
| A purse-bag | 91 |
| A skit on the “Pink of the mode” | To face 92 |
| A quaint tea-set | 100 |
| Gosfield Hall | To face 110 |
| Le Comte d’Artois (afterwards Charles X ) | To face 112 |
| The Dining-room in the Deanery, Bocking | 115 |
| Dr. Valpy’s school | To face 122 |
| Country cottages | 143 |
| Bertram House | 147 |
| Inlaid tea-caddy | 160 |
| The Mitfords’ cottage in Three Mile Cross | 163 |
| The village shop | 169 |
| The Swan Inn | 173 |
| A country wheelbarrow | 178 |
| Miss Mitford’s writing-parlour | 181 |
| The wheelwright’s workshop | 185 |
| Fragment of the Silchester Roman wall | 189 |
| Where the curate lodged | 193 |
| The curate’s parlour | 197 |
| An old Berkshire farm | 213 |
| Frith Street, Soho Square | 225 |
| Old houses in Great Queen Street | 233 |
| A French bonbonnière | 249 |
| The West Gate, Southampton | 251 |
| Pulteney Bridge, Bath | 254 |
| Arabella Fermor as a child. (After a picture in the possession of Frederick Cowslade, Esq.) | 259 |
| The Porch, Ufton Court | 261 |
| Arabella Fermor, the “Belinda” of the “Rape of the Lock,” afterwards Mrs. Perkins. (From a painting by W. Sykes in the possession of Lord Treowen) | To face 262 |
| Francis Perkins. (By W. Sykes, from a painting also in the possession of Lord Treowen) | To face 262 |
| Belinda’s parlour | 265 |
| The garden steps | 267 |
| A dandy of the period | 291 |
| An old shoeing forge | 297 |
| A bridge on the Loddon | 303 |
| In Aberleigh (Arborfield) Park | 307 |
| Dr. Mitford. (From a painting by John Lucas in the possession of W. May, Esq.) | To face 330 |
| Ironwork in the balcony of Sergeant Talfourd’s house | 338 |
| Verses by M. R. Mitford written in a friend’s album (facsimile) | To face 344 |
| Old house near Swallowfield | 355 |
| A teapot which belonged to M. R. Mitford | 359 |
| M. R. Mitford’s last home at Swallowfield | 363 |
| Swallowfield Church | 380 |