"The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Complete" by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

The Caxtons are Austin Caxton, a scholar engaged on a great work, "The History of Human Error;" his wife Kitty, much his junior; his brother Roland, the Captain, who has served in the Napoleonic campaigns; the two children of the latter, Herbert and Blanche; and Austin's son, Pisistratus, who tells the story. However, the quiet country life of the family of Austin Caxton is interrupted by a visit to London.