Holiday escapades with the Ruggles family at the Dew Drop Inn.
Eve Garnett was born in 1900 in Worcestershire, and studied art at Chelsea Polytechnic and the Royal Academy School of Art. Whilst a student, she sketched the people of the East End slums and was haunted by the poverty she had witnessed, resolving to do something to bring the plight of the working-class family to people's attention. The Family from One End Street was originally published by Frederick Muller in 1937, followed by The Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street in 1956, and Holiday at Dew Drop Inn in 1962. She died in 1991.
It was as if, with the story of Kate Ruggles' summer-long stay at
the eponymous hostelry and enthusiastic embrace of village life,
Eve Garnett had peered into my mind and written down exactly what
she knew would delight me most. That seemed to me magic of the
highest order
*The Guardian*
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