# Our Family Affairs, 1867-1896

Author: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic), 1867-1940

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58882

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Our+Family+Affairs%2C+1867-1896+Benson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

My father was headmaster of Wellington College, where and when I was born, but of him there, in spite of his extraordinarily forcible personality, I have no clear memory, though the first precise and definite recollection that I retain at all, heaving out of nothingness, was connected with him, for it certainly was he, who, standing by the table in the window of the dining-room with an open newspaper in his hand, told me never to forget this day on which the Franco-German war came to an end. Otherwise as regards him, somebody swept by in an academic cap and gown, a figure not at all awe-inspiring as he became to me very soon after, but simply a rather distinguished natural phenomenon to b...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-family-affairs-1867-1896-58882/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-family-affairs-1867-1896-58882/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-family-affairs-1867-1896-58882/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-family-affairs-1867-1896-58882/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-family-affairs-1867-1896-58882/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-family-affairs-1867-1896-58882/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-family-affairs-1867-1896-58882/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-family-affairs-1867-1896-58882/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-family-affairs-1867-1896-58882/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-family-affairs-1867-1896-58882/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-family-affairs-1867-1896-58882/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-family-affairs-1867-1896-58882/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-family-affairs-1867-1896-58882/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-family-affairs-1867-1896-58882/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-family-affairs-1867-1896-58882/chapters/1/index.md)