Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood Plumbing & Household Automation As the emotions of the

As the emotions of the past reverberate into the present

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Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood Plumbing & Household Automation As the emotions of theGwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin, described Period Piece, her classic memoir of an English childhood in the late 19th century, as a drawing of the world when I was young. The observations of the small incidents in her life, recorded here both in pen portraits and line drawings, 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