Table of Contents for
The Life Writings of Mary Baker McQuesten: Victorian Matriarch, edited by Mary J. Anderson

Introduction

Preface

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

McQuesten-Baker Family Tree

Photographs

Mary Baker’s Wedding Trousseau and Itemized Bill

Part 1
Mary Baker McQuesten’s Biography

Mary Jane Baker’s Childhood

Mary Baker’s Marriage to Isaac B. Questen

Mary Baker McQuesten’s Widowhood and Matriarchy: Six Children and Lives of Genteel Poverty

The Restoration of the Family

Part 2
Mary Baker McQuesten’s Work with the Presbyterian Missionary Societies

Postcolonial Considerations

Selections from Mary B. McQuesten’s Missionary Society Addresses

Part 3
The Victorian Narrative

Mary Baker McQuesten’s Letters as Literature: A Victorian Narrative

Personal Letters as Life Writing

The McQuestens and Their Victorian World

Photographs

Mary Baker McQuesten’s Letters

Letters 1873–1903

Letters 1904–1908

Letters 1909–1934

Eulogy by Rev. Beverley Ketchen

Photographs

Notes

Bibliography

Index