"Mrs. Sillar recalls her childhood and youth in the Edinburgh of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Written with unpretentious simplicity and a fine eye for details fo everyday life it is a valuable as well as an entertaining record of the domestic life, education work and play of the time. Oliver Holt has illustrated the book with a number of charming drawings in a style in keeping with the text." 162p: chapter headpieces; 22cm.
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