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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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I have never read a more enjoyable book of childhood memoirs. (Raymond Mortimer in the Sunday Times)
Commandingly evokes a vanished past with its morals and its manners … Intensely individual and yet strangely impersonal. (The Times)
I want to say with what pleasure and admiration I have read your book and also what enormous pleasure it would have given Virginia. (Leonard Woolf)
Period Piece is an altogether delightful book, a kind of insouciant wit, too appreciative to be called cynical, too unillusioned to be called pious. Mrs Raverat is not a Darwin for nothing. Her book comes out of a highly civilized background – the English professional and intellectual middle-classes, which, if not the backbone of England, may be held to be, on the whole, its mainstream of culture, and of sophisticated intelligence and wit. (Rose Macaulay in The Times Literary Supplement)
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