Period Piece A Cambridge Childhood

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Period Piece is the classic memoir of a Cambridge childhood, written by Charles Darwin's granddaughter. It evokes a time when long summer days were disturbed by nothing noisier than a horse, and long winter nights were lit only by candle or gas lamp. It is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of eccentric relations, and of Cambridge society when it was small enough to be treated as an extension of the family. As a young girl Gwen thought it impossible that she could ever succeed as an artist, and yet the observations of the small incidents of life, recorded here in delightful prose and beautiful illustrations, reveal an artist's careful eye.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780571339037
Published: February 2018

Number of pages: 288
Width: 130 mm
Height: 196 mm
Depth: 18 mm

Publisher: Faber & Faber