The narrator recounts his childhood in a devout Plymouth Brethren family, where he was forced to abandon his love of fiction and imagination. He describes the restrictive atmosphere at home, where his parents forbade him from reading novels or enjoying worldly pleasures. The narrator's father, a strict and unyielding man, dominates the household with his fundamentalist beliefs.
By Edmund Gosse · First published 1898 · Genre: Non-fiction, Epistolary, Historical