A CHILDHOOD IN BRITTANY EIGHTY YEARS AGO.
By ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK,
Author of "Tante," "The Encounter," etc.
Demy 8vo. Cloth. 10s. 6d. net.
With exquisite literary art which the reading public has recognised in "Tante" and others of her novels, the author of this book tells of a great lady's childhood in picturesque Brittany in the middle of the last century. It covers that period of life around which the tenderest and most vivid memories cluster; a childhood set in a district of France rich in romance, and rich in old loyalties to manners and customs of a gracious era that is irrevocably in the past.
Charming vignettes of character, marvellous descriptions of houses, costumes and scenery, short stories in silhouette of pathetic or humorous characters—these are also in the book.
And through it all the author is seen re-creating a background, which has profoundly influenced one of the finest literary artists of the last century.