My Garden of Memory: An Autobiography (The Riverside Library)

xxv, 443 pp. Green cloth, light brown titles, black-and-white photographic frontispiece. An autobiography by the author best known for Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and also notable for founding the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten), and for her advocacy for the rights and welfare of children in general. This book features an account of a trip taken with Charles Dickens, her experiences in Europe, her opinion on contemporary works of literature, etc.