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Gwen Raverat
Biography & Memoir
James Mustich
Jul 31, 2018
Gwen Raverat’s book, first published in 1952, looks back sixty years to life when her American mother and British father (son of Charles Darwin) brought her up lovingly within Cambridge’s well-ordered university society. This captivating volume—a recollection of an English childhood and youth at the end of the Victorian era—is everything a period piece should be: charming, imbued with both the familiarity of affectionate memory and the exoticism of manners no longer extant, luxuriant in its passage through reminiscence and custom, alertly observed and stylishly composed, suffused with the good humor a satisfied old age can bring.
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Jamie Evans
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maybe.. fascinated by English childhood
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