Editor Eliza Savage appears as the character Alethea in this novel, which begins with the life of the protagonist's great-grandfather John, a carpenter, and proceeds through the next three generations of a clerical family clearly based on the author's own.  
Editor Eliza Savage appears as the character Alethea in this novel, which begins with the life of the protagonist's great-grandfather John, a carpenter, and proceeds through the next three generations of a clerical family clearly based on the author's own.  The protagonist then breaks from the puritanical path of his parents Theobald and Christina; serves time in prison; and unwittingly enters into a bigamous marriage with Ellen.  However, that protagonist, Ernest, is rescued by his godfather and falls into an inheritance from his aunt.  FTP, identify this novel about the Pontifex family, a Victorian satire by Samuel Butler.
Editor Eliza Savage appears as the character Alethea in this novel, which begins with the life of the protagonist's great-grandfather John, a carpenter, and proceeds through the next three generations of a clerical family clearly based on the author's own.  
The Way of All Flesh