Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Family trees; Introduction; 1. Childhood and Charleston; 2. 'A land...with strong foes beset'; 3. Confirming a vocation; 4. Family duty; 5. The beginnings of Newnham; 6. Enter Blanche Athena Clough; 7. 'An ought which has to be reckoned with'; 8. Re-grouping; 9. War and its consequences; 10. Salvage operations; 11. Retirement; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Index.

Promotional Information

This book tells the story of an English middle-class family and their fortunes.

About the Author

Gillian Sutherland is Fellow, Gwatkin Lecturer and Director of Studies in History at Newnham College, Cambridge.

Reviews

'facinating... Gillian Sutherland brings out skillfully the different temperaments and charecters of her two subjects... Based on meticulous scholarship, her book can also beguile the reader with lively vignettes of Victorian and Edwardian domestic life.' Times Literary Supplement