Violet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic and Britannic, and her lively and well-rounded memoir including her first-hand account of the two disasters offers the reader a unique vantage on both the catastrophes and the socioeconomic climate of the time.
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New Preface Preface Introduction
Chapter 1: The Early Years
Chapter 2: The Railway Interval
Chapter 3: Buenos Aires
Chapter 4: In the Mountains
Chapter 5: Illness and Death
Chapter 6: Repatriation
Chapter 7: In Charge
Chapter 8: Convent Days
Chapter 9: Choosing a Career
Chapter 10: To Sea at Last
Chapter 11: Enter Ned
Chapter 12: Insufferable Passengers
Chapter 13: Troubled Voyage
Chapter 14: The South American Run
Chapter 15: The White Star Line
Chapter 16: Cabin Drama
Chapter 17: Olympic
Chapter 18: (This chapter is missing)
Chapter 19: Polemic and Lament
Chapter 20: Titanic
Chapter 21: Into the Lifeboat
Chapter 22: Rescue
Chapter 23: Australia and Ned
Chapter 24: Shipboard Romance
Chapter 25: A Nurse in the Great War
Chapter 26: Britannic
Chapter 27: Aftermath
Chapter 28: Peace and Prohibition
Chapter 29: Tim Goes Missing
Chapter 30: World Cruise
Chapter 31: At Sea
Chapter 32: The Jinrikisha Man
Chapter 33: The Baroness
Chapter 34: Tom's Downfall Epilogue Appendix I Appendix II Bibliography Index
