Elizabeth Anderson

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, read more

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

The last, lonely trailing indicator of the business cycle.

The last, lonely trailing indicator of the business cycle.

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have read more

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn read more

At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.