The End of a Childhood

This book contains a collection of short stories. In this book, the author explores themes that revolve around childhood sensuality and the challenges of growing up in the Victorian era. The book contains: The End of a Childhood: Four Further Chapters In The Life of Cuffy Mahony – Growing Pains: Sketches of Girlhood – The Bathe – Three in a Row – Preliminary Canter – Conversation in a Pantry – The Bath – The Wrong Turning – «And Women Must Weep» – Two Hanged Women – Two Tales of Old Strasbourg: Life and Death of Peterle Luthy – The Professor's Experiment – Succedaneum – Mary Christina – The Coat – Sister Ann