A perceptive and extraordinarily amusing recollection of her Edwardian childhood in Cambridge by Charles Darwin's granddaughter. Gwen's instinctive rebellion against the absurdity of middle-class social conventions of the day - particularly for girls - was confirmed at her Belgian finishing school where a fast new friend whose mother 'had short hair and smoked cigarettes' took her to a den and explained that conforming was no longer the done thing. Probably out of print - try a library.
(Michael Fitzgerald-Lombard - bwl 8 April 2001 ) |
