Caxtons: A Family Picture
Author: first_name: Edward
last_name: Bulwer-Lytton
Language: English
Year: 1849

The quiet country life of the Caxton family is interrupted by a visit to London. There the son, Pisistratus, is offered the position of secretary to a leader in Parliament. That parliamentarian's wife was loved as a girl by both Pisistratus' father and uncle; but she had passed them both by to make a marriage better suited to an ambitious woman. By a freak of fate, Pisistratus now falls in love with her daughter Fannie. <br><br>

Meanwhile, Pisistratus' uncle is estranged from his own son. Bet