Elizabeth Anderson

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.

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 asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and read more

I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

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.