Period Piece

'A drawing of the world when I was young.' So Gwen Raverat, the granddaughterof Charles Darwin, described Period Piece, her classic memoir of aCambridge childhood, which since its initial publication in 1952 has never beenout of print.Vividly evoking a bygone era, it is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of hereccentric relations, and of Cambridge society in a time when it was restrictedenough to be treated as an extension of the family. As a child she thought itimpossible...
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'A drawing of the world when I was young.' So Gwen Raverat, the granddaughterof Charles Darwin, described Period Piece, her classic memoir of aCambridge childhood, which since its initial publication in 1952 has never beenout of print.Vividly evoking a bygone era, it is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of hereccentric relations, and of Cambridge society in a time when it was restrictedenough to be treated as an extension of the family. As a child she thought itimpossible that she would ever succeed as an artist, and yet the observations ofthe small incidents in her life, recorded here both in word and drawing, reveal anartist's careful eye.