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Title: Grace Darling
Heroine of the Farne Islands

Author: Eva Hope

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GRACE DARLING

Heroine of the Farne Islands

by

EVA HOPE

[Frontispiece: Grace H. Darling]

London and Felling-on-Tyne
The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd.
New York: 3 East 14th Street
1875

THIS VOLUME

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO

MISS THOMASIN DARLING,

THE BELOVED SISTER OF THE HEROIC GRACE DARLING,

IN RECOGNITION OF HER CHRISTIAN CHARACTER

AND AMIABLE DISPOSITION, BY

THE AUTHOR

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I. Woman's Work
II. Ancient Northumbria
III. The Childhood of a Heroine
IV. Lighthouse Homes
V. Lighthouse Guests
VI. Christmas at the Longstone Lighthouse
VII. A Wedding in the Family
VIII. "Prevention Better than Cure"
IX. August Pic-Nic's Pleasures
X. The Perils of the Ocean
XI. The Wreck of the "Forfarshire"
XII. Grace to the Rescue
XIII. After the Event
XIV. A Visit to the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland
at Alnwick Castle
XV. The Darling Family at Home
XVI. An Early Death
XVII. "Being Dead, yet Speaketh"
XVIII. Conclusion

GRACE DARLING,

THE HEROINE OF THE FARNE ISLES.

CHAPTER I.

WOMAN'S WORK.

"The rights of woman, what are they?
The right to labour and to pray;
The right to succour in distress;
The right, when others curse; to bless;
The right to lead the soul to God,
Along the path the Saviour trod."

What is woman's work? This is one of the vexed questions of to-day,
and it is one which, doubtless, sometimes troubled the unwilling b