Sweet Poison Author Forename:Mary Gwen Raverat describes her late

Gwen Raverat describes her late Victorian Cambridge childhood

In the midst of this Bartholomew is called to examine two corpses

and then the husband too

And she's white

misleads himself through his conventional desire for marriage and fatherhood

Sweet Poison Author Forename:Mary Gwen Raverat describes her lateAugustus 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