Home Influence: A Tale for Mothers and Daughters, an electronic edition

Grace Aguilar [ Aguilar, Grace, 1816-1847 ]

date: 1857
source publisher: Hickling, Swan and Brewer.
collection: Genre Fiction

Table of Contents

• front matter
  • title page : full
  • dedicaton
  • PREFACE.
  • MEMOIR OF GRACE AGUILAR.
  • table of contents
• part
  • chapter: HOME INFLUENCE PART I. THE SISTERS. CHAPTER I. A LAUNCH.—A PROMISE.—A NEW RELATION.
  • CHAPTER II. GLIMPSES INTO A CHILD'S HEART.—A DEATHBED.
  • CHAPTER III. RETROSPECTION.—THE LOWLY SOUGHT.—THE HAUGHTY FOILED.
  • CHAPTER IV. RESTROSPECTIVE.—EFFECTS OF COQUETRY.—OBEDIENCE AND DISOBEDIENCE.
  • CHAPTER V. A HEART AND HOME IN ENGLAND.—A HEART AND HOME IN INDIA.
  • CHAPTER VI. DOMESTIC DISCORD AND ITS END.
• part
  • chapter: PART II. TRAITS OF CHARACTER. CHAPTER I. YOUTHFUL COLLOQUY—INTRODUCING CHARACTER
  • CHAPTER II. THREE ENGLISH HOMES, AND THEIR INMATES.
  • CHAPTER III. HOME SCENE.—VISITORS.—CHILDISH MEDITATIONS.
  • CHAPTER IV. VARIETIES.
  • CHAPTER V. A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN A PASSION.—A WALK.—A SCENE OF DISTRESS.
  • CHAPTER VI. CECIL GRAHAME'S PHILOSOPHY.—AN ERROR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.—A MYSTERY AND A CONFIDENCE.
  • CHAPTER VII. MR. MORTON'S STORY.—A CONFESSION.—A YOUNG PLEAD ER.—GENEROSITY NOT ALWAYS JUSTICE.
  • CHAPTER VIII. AN UNPLEASANT PROPOSAL.—THE MYSTERY SOLVED.—A FATHER'S GRIEF FROM A MOTHER'S WEAKNESS.—A FA- THER'S JOY FROM A MOTHER'S INFLUENCE.
  • CHAPTER IX. TEMPTATION AND DISOBEDIENCE.—FEAR.—FALSEHOOD AND PUNISHMENT.
  • CHAPTER X. PAIN AND PENITENCE.—TRUTH IMPRESSED, AND RECON CILIATION.—THE FAMILY TREE.
  • CHAPTER XI. THE CHILDREN'S BALL.
  • CHAPTER XII. EFFECTS OF PLEASURE.—THE YOUNG MIDSHIPMAN.—ILL TEMPER, ITS ORIGIN AND CONSEQUENCES.
  • CHAPTER XIII. SUSPICION.—A PARTING, A DOUBLE GRIEF.—INNOCENCE PROVED.—WRONG DONE AND EVIL CONFIRMED BY DOUBT.
• part
  • chapter: PART III. SIN AND SUFFERING. CHAPTER I. ADVANCE AND RETROSPECT.
  • CHAPTER II. A LETTER, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
  • CHAPTER III. A SUMMONS AND A LOSS.
  • CHAPTER IV. THE BROKEN DESK.
  • CHAPTER V. THE CULPRIT AND THE JUDGE.
  • CHAPTER VI. THE SENTENCE, AND ITS EXECUTION.
  • CHAPTER VII. THE LIGHT GLIMMERS.
  • CHAPTER VIII. THE STRUGGLE.
  • CHAPTER IX. ILLNESS AND REMORSE.
  • CHAPTER X. MISTAKEN IMPRESSIONS ERADICATED.
  • CHAPTER XI. THE LOSS OF THE SIREN.
  • CHAPTER XII. FOREBODINGS.
  • CHAPTER XIII. FORGIVENESS.
  • CHAPTER XIV. THE RICH AND THE POOR.
  • CHAPTER XV. A HOME SCENE, AND A PARTING.
  • CHAPTER XVI. THE BIRTHDAY GIFT.