“Home is a place that I never do get away from without immediately wishing myself back in it.”

A plain-spoken confession of her powerful attachment to home · Memoir, The Retrospect (1912)

• Love
• Memory

“For more than thirty years we have not met, and there have been long gaps in our correspondence; but friendship has survived all, unchanged.”

Celebrating friendship that endures despite distance and long silences · Memoir, Thirty Years in Australia (1903)

• Friendship
• Memory
• Time

“I performed my part of this contract not wholly without pleasure in it, and I have no doubt that I owe to her my first taste for literature and the bent towards authorship which afterwards became a fixed line.”

Tracing her eventual vocation as a writer to an early influence on her reading · Memoir, The Retrospect (1912)

• Art
• Memory