Period Piece: The Cambridge Childhood of Darwin's Granddaughter

First published in 1952, this memoir describes Gwen Raverat's late-Victorian childhood in Cambridge as a granddaughter of Charles Darwin. Arranged by theme rather than year - the house at Newnham Grange, her mother's theories, education, propriety, visits to Down, the Darwin uncles, religion, clothes, and society - it records a child's view of Fellows, floods, chaperonage, and family eccentricity. Her American mother Maud and her father George Darwin are central; cousins and great-aunts fill the household. The book is a domestic portrait of one academic clan, illustrated by the author's drawings, not a full life.

Bound in cloth, blocked in gold and featuring an illustration. 77 B&W integrated illustrations.