1898. Livermore, teacher, author, wife, mother, army nurse, soldier's friend, lecturer and reformer. A narrative of her early life and struggles for education, three years' experiences on a southern plantation among white masters and black slaves, her courtship, marriage, domestic life, etc. with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years experience as an Army nurse in the Great Civil War and reminiscences of twenty-five years experiences on the lecture platform, including thrilling, pathetic, and humorous incidents of platform life to which is added six of her most popular lectures. Superbly illustrated with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists, made expressly for this work.