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Synopsis
Excerpt from A Child of the Age
In 1879, at the age of seventeen, Adams left Shrewsbury School the Glastonbury of this novel - and spent the next two years chiefly in Paris. In 1880 he wrote the first draft of the book, and during the two years following, latterly in London and Ventnor, he recast and corrected his work. Under the title Leicester, an Autobiography it was published in 1884, while the author was in Australia. Some time after, on reading his novel critically as the work of another writer, he was surprised to find how truly he had depicted experiences which at the time of writing he had still to undergo. In another letter 1885] he says: I see its faults clearly, but entirely fail to reproduce its excellences. It is a remarkable book and it came to me to write it in a quite spontaneous and inspired way. He said on another occasion: It was an honest attempt to give a candid revelation, but it was crude and morbid and not quite candid. Beware, he adds, of taking my characters for myself. I am terribly objec tive; even when I wrote 'leicester, ' I wrote of one entirely unlike myself.
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