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which is why the writer thought the plot ‘no more than the necessary vehicle for the inculcation of profound ideas
like EM Forster
Having started the day
and sympathise with painters and craftsmen
If you like a novel that expertly puts you through the wringer
A London Child of the 1870s Category_Grey Books/Bloomsbury which is why the writerAFTERWORD BY ADAM GOPNIK 200pp ISBN 9781903155516 'We were just an ordinary, suburban, Victorian family, undistinguished ourselves and unacquainted with distinguished people.' Thus Molly Hughes writes in one of the great classics of autobiography, A London Child of the 1870s (1934) in which she describes her everyday life in a semi detached house in Islington as the youngest of a large, characterful family. On first reading, writes Adam Gopnik of The