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Berwick and the Stevensons; dissent and politics in Manchester in the1790's; vacillations of a father; authorship in Edinburgh and London; motherand more than mother; refuge in Knutsford; friends and relations; wideningcircles; happy families; et in arcadia ego; father and brother; the educationof an author; home and abroad; advice to a young lady; society in Wales;authors and would-be authors; a chapter of endings; Newcastle and elsewhere;northern values; grave and gay; destiny; engagement; things dying: thingsreborn. Bibliographical appendix. Appendices: Stevensons ofBerwick-upon-Tweed; Hollands of Cheshire; Turner family; Anne, Charles, Fannyand Kate Holland; Elizabeth Stevenson's commonplace book; William Gaskell'sengagement letter; notes and problems.