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Inspired by the real life story of Caroline Norton, a friend of the author's, this book tells about a lively woman who is trapped in a miserable marriage. Yet Diana is not one to give up in her quest for love, happiness and fulfillment.
- Chapters
- Chapter 1: Of Diaries and Diarists Touching the Heroine
- Chapter 2: An Irish Ball
- Chapter 3: The Interior of Mr. Redworth, and the Exterior of Mr. Sullivan Smith
- Chapter 4: Containing Hints of Diana's Experiences and of what They Led to
- Chapter 5: Concerning the Scrupulous Gentleman who Came Too Late
- Chapter 6: The Couple
- Chapter 7: The Crisis
- Chapter 8: In which is Exhibited How a Practical Man and a Divining Woman Learn to Respect One Another
- Chapter 9: Shows How a Position of Delicacy for a Lady and Gentleman was Met in Simple Fashion Without Hurt to Either
- Chapter 10: The Conflict of the Night
- Chapter 11: Recounts the Journey in a Chariot, with a Certain Amount of Dialogue, and a Small Incident on the Road
- Chapter 12: Between Emma and Diana
- Chapter 13: Touching the First Days of Her Probation
- Chapter 14: Giving Glimpses of Diana Under Her Cloud Before the World and of Her Further Apprenticeship
- Chapter 15: Introduces the Hon. Percy Dacier
- Chapter 16: Treats of a Midnight Bell, and of a Scene of Early Morning
- Chapter 17: 'The Princess Egeria'
- Chapter 18: The Authoress
- Chapter 19: A Drive in Sunlight and a Drive in Moonlight
- Chapter 20: Diana a Night-Watch in the Chamber of Death
- Chapter 21: 'The Young Minister of State'
- Chapter 22: Between Diana and Dacier: The Wind East Over Bleak Land
- Chapter 23: Records a Visit to Diana from One of the World’s Good Women
- Chapter 24: Indicates a Soul Prepared for Desperation
- Chapter 25: Once More the Crossways and a Change of Turnings
- Chapter 26: In which a Disappointed Lover Receives a Multitude of Lessons
- Chapter 27: Contains Matter for Subsequent Explosion
- Chapter 28: Dialogue Round the Subject of a Portrait, with Some Indications of the Task for Diana
- Chapter 29: Shows the Approaches of the Political and the Domestic Crisis in Company
- Chapter 30: In which There is a Taste of a Little Dinner and an Aftertaste
- Chapter 31: A Chapter Containing Great Political News and Therewith an Intrusion of the Love-God
- Chapter 32: Wherein We Behold a Giddy Turn at the Spectral Crossways
- Chapter 33: Exhibits the Springing of a Mine in a Newspaper Article
- Chapter 34: In which it is Darkly Seen How the Criminal's Judge May Be Love's Criminal
- Chapter 35: Reveals How the True Heroine of Romance Comes Finally to Her, Time of Triumph
- Chapter 36: Is Conclusive as to the Heartlessness of Women with Brains
- Chapter 37: An Exhibition of Some Champions of the Stricken Lady
- Chapter 38: Convalescence of a Healthy Mind Distraught
- Chapter 39: Of Nature with One of Her Cultivated Daughters and a Short Excursion in Anti-Climax
- Chapter 40: In which We See Nature Making of a Woman a Maid Again, and a Thrice Whimsical
- Chapter 41: Contains a Revelation of the Origin of the Tigress in Diana
- Chapter 42: The Penultimate: Showing a Final Struggle for Liberty and Run into Harness
- Chapter 43: Nuptial Chapter; and of How a Barely Willing Woman was Led to Bloom with the Nuptial Sentiment