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Period Piece. A Cambridge Childhood

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Period Piece' is a 1952 autobiographical memoir by Gwen Raverat focusing on her childhood in late 19th Century Cambridge society. Raverat's childhood memories and coming of age during the last years of Victoria's rule capture a young woman's views of dons and eccentrics in Cambridge during the 1890s. It includes anecdotes and illustrations of many of her extended family.