The Godwin Children

Mary had a terrible skin condition, which biographers now think was probably just eczema. But in those days they thought it could be much more serious than it actually was. So Mary was kind of treated as a sickly child and that really affected how she felt about herself. It's quite a sad childhood, isn't it? Well, there is the story that she learnt to write her own name, tracing the letters on her mother's grave. Maybe that's where it all started. I mean, this really was an amazing and unusual household to grow up in. She was a little bit creepy but other people who visited the house were very taken with the Godwin children and