Publisher's Synopsis
Gwen Raverat, granddaughter of Charles Darwin, was famed for her wood-engravings, many of which illustrate these stories, and her association with the Bloomsbury Group. This masterpiece of comic writing is also a great social memoir, describing life in the late 19th century amid the fads and fetishes of academic and Victorian England. This witty and irreverent book became a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic when it was first published fifty years ago.
