In the Days of My Youth

"In the Days of My Youth: A Novel" by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards is a recollection of the narrator, Basil Arbuthnot, in her youth. As a boy, Basil finds home schooling hard going and doesn't want to father in the footsteps of his doctor father. At 20, he's able to leave home to study abroad and begins to explore a world of luxury and society that he didn't know existed.