Tupper, Martin Farquhar, 1810-1889 / 2008-05-25 00:00:00

EBOOK MY LIFE AS AN AUTHOR ***


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[Illustration: Martin F. Tupper. _Elliott & Fry, Photographers._]


Martin Tupper's Autobiography


MY LIFE
AS AN AUTHOR
BY
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
D.C.L. F.R.S.
_Viri, vivo, vivam._
LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188 FLEET STREET, E.C.
1886
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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
Page
Preliminary--Sonnet--Public Life, not Private--Benjamin
Franklin--Samples from Books--Self-judgment 1-6

CHAPTER II.
Infancy and Schooldays--Parentage--Germany and Guernsey,
America and Canada--Winsor's Patent Gaslights--King George
III.'s Blessing--My Father's Dream--Second
Sight--Heredity--First School at Brentford--Next at Brook
Green--Third Charterhouse--Dr.
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