Includes bibliographical references (pages 428-433).

My Way Is to Begin with the Beginning: 1816 -- Sole Daughter of My House and Heart: January-April 1816 -- I Know That Thou Wilt Love Me: April-December 1816 -- Dull Hate as Duty Should Be Taught: December 1816-September 1817 -- Smiles Form the Channel of a Future Tear: September 1817-July 1818 -- Wishing Each Other, Not Divorced, but Dead: July 1818-January 1822 -- Sharp Is the Knife, and Sudden Is the Stroke: January 1822-March 1825 -- New Shores Descried Make Every Bosom Gay: March 1826-November 1827 -- More Restless Than the Swallow in the Skies: December 1827-May 1828 -- As a Wild-Born Falcon with Clipt Wing: November 1828-January 1831 -- Who Would Be Free Themselves Must Strike the Blow: January-December 1831 -- But Sweeter Still Than This, Than These, Than All, Is First and Passionate Love: April 1832-March 1833 -- Thus the Heart Will Break, Yet Brokenly Live On: March-May 1833 -- Once Kindled, Quenchless Evermore: May-June 1833 -- What Wondrous New Machines Have Late Been Spinning!: June 1833 -- The Commencement of Atonement Is the Sense of Its Necessity: June 1833-March 1834 -- A Mind to Comprehend the Universe: March-May 1834 -- The Quest of Hidden Knowledge: May-October 1834 -- With My Knowledge Grew the Thirst of Knowledge: October 1834-January 1835 -- I Could Not Tame My Nature Down: January-May 1835 -- Links Grace and Harmony in Happiest Chain: June 1835 -- On with the Dance! Let Joy Be Unconfined: June-September 1835 -- All Who Joy Would Win Must Share It: September 1835-May 1836 -- Days Steal on Us and Steal from Us: May 1836-August 1839 -- Rumours Strange, and of Unholy Nature, Are Abroad: September 1839-February 1841 -- It Were the Deadliest Sin to Love as We Have Loved: February-May 1841 -- Longings Sublime, and Aspirations High: May 1841-February 1843 -- What Is Writ, Is Writ: February-August 1843 -- Go, Little Book, from This My Solitude: August-September 1843 -- What Deep Wounds Ever Closed Without a Scar?: 1844-1850 -- A Noble Wreck in Ruinous Perfection: September 1850 -- Hopes Which Will Not Deceive: September-December 1850 -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author.