London: Readers Union with Macmillan, 1947. Book Club Edition. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. viii, [4], 402, [2] pages. Synopsis of Napoleon's Career. Authorities and Works Consulted. Index. Endpapers discolored. Some cover wear and soiling. Some page creasing and discoloration. Dormer Creston was the penname of Dorothy Julia Colston-Baynes, the daughter of an English baronet. Enter a Child is her autobiography; she was an unusually sensitive child who had to please impossibly demanding Victorian parents. She had strong aesthetic urges that were completely misunderstood and ignored by her relatives, much like Lord Berners in his own memoir First Childhood. Everything their daughter does is wrong by their lights, and she rarely understands why. Baynes does a good job of pulling you into the viewpoint of a innocent child placed in the middle of rigid, dictatorial adults who labor under a maelstrom of neurosis. In many ways, Enter a Child is a book about a daughter of a baronet who suffered a great deal from her excessively rigid family. Enter a Child is a good book that ought to be better known than it is. More