num_pages: 245
description: Molly Hughes vividly evokes the small, everyday pleasures of a close family life in Victorian joyful Christmases, blissful holidays in Cornwall, escapades with her brothers, schooldays under the redoubtful Miss Buss. The urban counterpart to Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford, there is the same easy intimacy with the reader, the same intensity of recollection. Her college life at Cambridge and her first teaching jobs provide a fascinating glimpse into another world, full of everyday period detail, vividly and humorously told.
language: English
title: A London Girl of the 1880s
titlecomplete: A London Girl of the 1880s
genres: Historical, Biography, British Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, Womens, Biography Memoir, History, Victorian
ratings_count: 71
series: A London Family
publisher: Oxford University Press