In the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, eighteen-year-old Reginald Grove left Uppingham School for Cambridge before training at Guy's Hospital and then taking over his father's medical practice in Huntingdonshire. As he later reflected I was born in a country practice and destined from my earliest years for a medical career .
The three-volume biography, based on his diaries and letters from 1881 to 1910, draws also on contemporary accounts of social life in a period of massive change in education, science, medicine, sport, railways, communication, agriculture and religion.
This first volume covers his upbringing in a Victorian market town; it paints a charming portrait of family life, his friends, hobbies, reading, holidays on his cousin's farms, summer days fishing and boating and in the winter, skating on the Fens.
The three-volume biography, based on his diaries and letters from 1881 to 1910, draws also on contemporary accounts of social life in a period of massive change in education, science, medicine, sport, railways, communication, agriculture and religion.
This first volume covers his upbringing in a Victorian market town; it paints a charming portrait of family life, his friends, hobbies, reading, holidays on his cousin's farms, summer days fishing and boating and in the winter, skating on the Fens.