Autobiography
Memories and Experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway

This 1904 autobiography describes the life of an American proponent of anti-slavery, free religion, social reform and women's suffrage.

Moncure Daniel Conway (Author)

9781108050616, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 June 2012

438 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.55 kg

Published in 1904, three years before his death, Conway's Autobiography is a peaceful and introspective account of a compelling life. Born to a slave-owning Methodist family in Virginia, Conway (1832–1907) turned away from his roots to become a proponent of anti-slavery, free religion, reform and women's suffrage. Observing and becoming involved in the developments of late nineteenth-century religious, political, scientific, literary and artistic thought, he formed friendships with central figures of the age, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Carlyle, which feature in the work alongside his devoted family life. Volume 2 covers his time in Europe, witnessing and reporting on the unifications of Italy and Germany, the Franco-Prussian War, and the birth of the Third Republic. The death of his wife and his own declining years in Paris close the work, which also tracks his ardent anti-war stance and the sad rejection of his long-standing faith in progress.

28. Discussions in London concerning slavery and the negro
29. My reviews of Browning
30. Settlement at South Place Chapel
31. The Taylors of Aubrey House
32. Parliament
33. Lord Rector Carlyle in Edinburgh
34. Ruskin
35. 'Artemus Ward'
36. Paris
37. London scientific circle
38. James Anthony Froude
39. Belgium at the outbreak of the Franco-German war
40. The fete of victory at Berlin
41. First visit to Rome
42. George Peabody
43. Brooke Herford
44. Max Müller at Oxford
45. Dr Jowett at Balliol
46. Anthropology
47. Sorby and the spectrum
48. Residence at Hamlet House
49. London as Mars Hill
50. Carlyle–Emerson letters
51. Memoranda
52. Index.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]