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A London Home in the Nineties, which was first published in 1937, is the third volume in British Author Molly Hughes' entertaining and deeply moving autobiographical trilogy on her life in Victorian London. Here, Hughes recounts in loving detail her engagement to and married life with Arthur Hughes in the late 1880's, bringing up a family of her own, as well as her work as head of the training department at Bedford College from 1892 until 1897, where...
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A London Child of the Seventies, which was first published in 1934, is a record of British author Molly Hughes' memories of life as a child in London during the 'seventies of the last century.' In the warmth of her recollection, the image of "Victorianism" as something harsh, restricted and unnatural melts and vanishes. This was a happy life, not because it was luxuriously equipped, but because the spirit of human relationships in a large family was...
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In A London Girl of the Eighties, which was first published in 1936; British author Molly Hughes vividly evokes the small, everyday pleasures of a close family life in Victorian London: joyful Christmases, blissful holidays in Cornwall, escapades with her brothers, and schooldays under the doubtful Miss Buss. Her intensive recollection of college life at Cambridge and her first teaching jobs creates an easy intimacy with the reader and provides a...
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