Clarice: An Autobiography, Clarice Snook edited by Gwen Bessell Browne (Atkinson)

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Scratch on spine is now protected with book tape. First impression limited to 500 copies.

Charming memoirs of childhood in Victoria, WWI years in England, and post-war life in Australia.

With her baby girl, Clarice spent the years of WWI in England as the wife of a young airman (and POW of the Germans). Detailed descriptions of the English countryside in all seasons, the social customs and lifestyle of those days - nannies, cooks, housemaids, chauffeurs, gardeners - are nostalgic for those who can remember and enlightening for those who never lived in an age when such a lifestyle was commonplace. Childhood in Victoria and post-war life back in Australia are also clearly drawn.

No attempt has been made to modernise the quaint, almost Edwardian language, handwritten and left to her daughter, Gwen, by the author, who was 89 when she died in 1976.