66 Ellen Key Sundsholm she still went after it had been turned over to a corporation, though managed by her brother, and even later when it came to have another owner, who, however, did not occupy it, she spent parts of every summer there until 1889. Since later owners have taken up their residence there, she has never wanted to return to the old home or see it again. She had entered upon her thirty-first year when the new life began in which she had to make her own way in the world, without the protection and assistance of the home, with nothing but the opportunities she could create for herself. Many and great were the diffi- culties she had to overcome, yet she never borrowed a penny. She often went without sufficient food. New clothes were not to be thought of. But no one saw her discouraged, and she never felt herself humiliated. She was borne up, albeit unconsciously, during these decades of poverty, by the feeling that she was one of those whom exterior circum- stances could not degrade. Her principal field of labour was education. For several decades she devoted herself to school work, from the lowest stages, without feeling her powers misused. The work was to