Table of Contents:
  • ch. 1. Girls and women
  • ch. 2. Spoils of war
  • ch. 3. Voice of a young woman
  • ch. 4. Belle and bride
  • ch. 5. Walking in New Orleans, swimming at Grand Isle
  • ch. 6. Cloutierville: the talk of the town
  • ch. 7. St. Louis and At fault
  • ch. 8. Professional writer
  • ch. 9. Writer, her reviewers, and her markets
  • ch. 10. World of writing and friends
  • ch. 11. Night, love, war
  • ch. 12. Awakening
  • ch. 13. Aftermath.