First of two volume memoir by Fairlie Taylor. Taylor started work as a teacher in regional Victoria. In 1933 she became Victoria's first full-time teacher-librarian at Presbyterian Ladies' College, East Melbourne and later at Methodist Ladies' College. This volume covers the period 1887-1919. It has little relevance to East Melbourne other than a description of her meeting with Miss Violet Nield who lived in Spring Street, Melbourne and ran a kindergarten in East Melbourne in the 1880s and 1890s at various addresses. No index.