Period Piece

Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin, described in this memoir 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, written here in her inimitably charming prose 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.