List of books I like:

Carlyle's French Revolution and Miscellanies.
Hero and Hero-Worship.
Goethe's poems, plays, and novels.
Plutarch's Lives.
Madame Guion.
Paradise Lost and Comus.
Schiller's Plays.
Madame de Staël.
Bettine.
Louis XIV.
Jane Eyre.
Hypatia.
Philothea.
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Emerson's Poems. . . .

1853.--In January I started a little school--E. W., W. A., two L's, two
H's--about a dozen in our parlor. In May, when my school closed, I
went to L. as second girl. I needed the change, could do the wash, and
was glad to earn my $2 a week. Home in October with $34 for my wages.
After two days' rest, began school again with ten children. Anna went
to Syracuse to teach; father to the West to try his luck--so poor, so
hopeful, so serene. God be with him! Mother had several boarders, and
May got on well at school. Betty was still the home bird, and had a
little romance with C.

Pleasant letters from father and Anna. A hard year. Summer
distasteful and lonely; winter tiresome with school and people I didn't