Sweet Poison Author Forename:Mary in a life of crime

in a life of crime

Gwen Raverat describes her late Victorian Cambridge childhood

and then the husband too

A thought-provoking

Sweet Poison Author Forename:Mary in a life of crimeAugustus Gale was a man in love in love with a woman of genius who had been dead for over a century. This macabre devotion poisoned both his own life and the lives of those around him: his son and daughter, his beautiful second wife, and even his devoted mother. Yet it was a strictly confined obsession, and when a party of archaeologists sought permission to excavate a Roman mosaic pavement on Augustus's land, they were met with blunt and contemptuous