Preface; Part I. Childhood: 1. The Bulwers; 2. Maternal grandfather and grandmother; 3. The child of parted parents; 4. Knebworth; 5. The Lyttons; 6. First suitors; 7. The deserted house; 8. Elizabeth Lytton; 9. Last suitors; 10. Miss Lytton marries Colonel Bulwer; 11. Birth of William, Henry, and Edward Bulwer; 12. Elizabeth's married life; 13. General Bulwer; 14. The old scholar; 15. The first temptation; 16. Practical ethics; 17. Reminiscences of childhood; 18. The scholar's death; 19. The arrival of the books; 20. The child's intercourse with them; 21. The departure of the books; Part II. School: 1. First experiences of school life; 2. Schoolmaster and schoolboy; 3. Last experiences of school life; 4. Life at Ealing; 5. First essays in authorship; 6. Letters to a fellow-pupil; 7. Letters from elder friends; 8. First love; 9. Love story continued; 10. Life at St Lawrence; 11. The manuscript of Lionel Hastings; 12. Lionel Hastings (cont.); 13. Lionel Hastings (cont.); 14. Lionel Hastings (cont.); 15. Lionel Hastings (cont.); 16. Lionel Hastings (cont.); Part III. College: 1. Life at Cambridge; 2. End of college life; 3. Union debates and college contemporaries; 4. Non-academical studies; 5. Literary works at Cambridge; 6. History of the British public; Part IV. Wanderjahr: 1. The grave of a dream; 2. The tale of a dreamer; 3. Windermere; 4. An adventure; 5. Visit to Mr Owen; 6. An adventure in the Highlands; 7. Scarborough; 8. Life with the gipsies; 9. How it ended; 10. Lady Caroline Lamb; 11. Lady Caroline Lamb (cont.); 12. De Lindsay; 13. First connection with a duel; 14. Social relations with the Faubourg St-Germain.