A Victorian Family: M.V. Hughes

Slipcase set of three books. A London Child Of the 1870s: Molly Hughes writes of her suburban London Victorian family in the 1870s. In this first book she describes her happy childhood, growing up with her 4 brothers, outings in London and holidays with her mother's family in Cornwall. Hughes notes details when describing people, places and things that make the story come alive.  A London Girl Of The 1880s:  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 redoubtable 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. A London Home In The 1890s: Now a confident, literary-minded young woman, still with an irrepressible senses of humour, Molly becomes one of the first lecturers at the newfangled teacher training department at Bedford College. Her horizons widen as she travels through France, Switzerland, Washington,  Boston, Toronto and Montreal and she marries in  the year of Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, moving into a flat in  Ladbroke Grove where the lease expressly forbids the keeping of pigeons (!). She shares her domestic experiences and shopping expeditions, and a recipe for a pudding called 'Sir William Watkins'.