Fourscore Years

The autobiography of the medievalist and historian G. G. Coulton, written only a few years before his death in 1947.

George Gordon Coulton (Author)

9781107646278, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 February 2012

400 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.51 kg

First published in 1943, and reprinted with corrections in 1944, Fourscore Years is the autobiography of the sometimes controversial medievalist and historian G. G. Coulton, written only a few years before his death in 1947. The memoir chronicles nearly eighty years of the author's life and work and is accompanied by several photographs and drawings.

Preface
1. Wensleydale and Oldham
2. Apron strings
3. Dame's school
4. Victorian Lynn (1)
5. Victorian Lynn (2)
6. St-Omer
7. The grammar school
8. Pentney
9. The public school
10. The chrysalis stage
11. Cambridge in 1877
12. College small beer
13. St Catharine's
14. Malvern Wells
15. Llandaff
16. Parish work
17. Fresh woods
18. Wales (I)
19. Wales (2)
20. Heidelberg
21. Sherborne
22. Sedbergh
23. Dulwich College
24. Lausanne and Naples
25. Sorrento and Amalfi
26. Homeward bound
27. South Lynn
28. A bee in the bonnet
29. Winter sport
30. Thurlestone
31. First books
32. Cambridge again
33. History and controversy
34. An extreme case
35. Soul's ease
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]