How long does it take to read Period Piece?
Gwen Raverat
Period Piece by Gwen Raverat takes about 5 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 9 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1952. 281 pages, about 77,275 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At the close of 1952, Bertrand Russell wrote to Gwen Raverat that he had been reading Period Piece “with the very greatest delight.” Raverat’s memories of childhood and coming of age during the final years of Victoria’s reign capture a young woman’s impressions of dons, eccentrics, and tradespeople in Cambridge during the 1890s. With astonishing power Period Piece brings us into the real presence of the late Victorian past.
Subjects: Childhood and youth, Homes and haunts, Women wood-engravers, Biography, Wood-engravers, Homes
