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One Quiet Life
Arthur Edward Brown
其他書名
Memoir of a Country Doctor
出版Parrot Press, 2013
主題Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN09871556449780987155641
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=N45DlQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Arthur Brown evokes his childhood pleasures in Colac, a country town in Victoria. His father was a prominent doctor, and his mother presided over a large house and garden, "The Elms," and several servants. Sent away to school, Arthur recalls the pleasures of Greenvale and the unpleasantness of Melbourne Grammar. In Britain he loved the Edinburgh Academy. At Cambridge, where he studied medicine, he became deeply involved with an evangelical Christian group that had links to a boys? club in London. He wrestled with spiritual and sexual issues, and eventually became disenchanted with the activities and counsel of his evangelical friends. As the British Empire went to War, he served as a doctor first with the British Army, then with Australian forces. Returning to Colac, he joined his father's practice. His evangelical inclinations led to advocacy for radical, progressive reforms to the medical profession and hospitals. These memoirs were written in 1957 and revised in 1963. They were intended principally for his own and his family's amusement. Fifty years later, they are published for the amusement of a wider public. They have "period" interest, as he correctly noted, and give "a view of what life looked like to a very ordinary man living in the years between Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II."