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Period Piece: The Victorian Childhood of Charles Darwin's Grand-Daughter (Hardcover)

by Gwen Raverat (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Clear Press Ltd (1 Nov 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1904555128
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904555124
  • Product Dimensions: 25 x 19.5 x 2.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 182,182 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"I have never read a more enjoyable book of childhood memoirs." -- Raymond Mortimer in The Sunday Times, London

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To celebrate its 50 years in print, Clear Books has published a special edition of this classic and much loved work.

Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin, described this memoir of her late Victorian Cambridge childhood as a drawing of the world when she was young.

The observations of the small incidents in her life and of her eccentric Darwin family, recorded here both in her inimitably charming prose and her line drawings, reveal an artist's careful eye. Vividly evoking a bygone era, it is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of her childhood, her eccentric relations, and of Cambridge academic society.

The book’s wit and charm have endeared it to several generations of avid readers and have ensured it is still in print some 51 years after it was first published.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Has Cambridge ever really been this much fun?, 15 Mar 2000
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This review is from: Period Piece - A Cambridge Childhood (Paperback)
Charles Darwin's grand-daughter tells of her eccentric upbringing and her large, talented and idiosyncratic family. A good window onto the life of the upper-class Victorian intelligentsia, her account is consistently affectionate, humorous and light of touch. Whimsical, sane and very funny. Deserves to be better-known.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars If only there were 10 stars to give..., 15 Dec 2004
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This remarkable memoir holds a secure place in my heart. I first read it when I was doing research in Cambridge, but have returned to it many times since. There is no other book that I know of in English quite like it. If only more people knew of it. The depth of Gwen Ravert's memory, and the ease with which she moves among her individual memories. Everything about the world she inhabits is made delightful, especially the family of Charles Darwin. It seems to have been an idyllic age. For the middle classes at least, childhood in late Victorian England seems to have been enviable Ñ especially when we think of modern children, their loss of innocence, and the dangers they are exposed to. Raverat brings to life a lost world through wit and intelligence, with animated and sometimes preposterous characters. This is better than Dickens, Michel Faber, Jerome K Jerome, and all the rest. it has a real claim to be the most amiable, amusing, and perceptive memoir in the English language. Buy it, read it, and keep it with you for the rest of your life.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Witty & droll, 16 Dec 2003
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This is one of the funniest, best written books I have ever read. Every time I re-read it I admire her prose - which is very witty and dry - more and more. The line drawings and captions are extremely amusing.
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