I loved the bit about Freud being so interested in gossip about, um, Havelock Ellis, I think it was. And poor old Freud saying he didn't think anything would happen to him because the Viennese were so kind, when they were holding parades with swastika-shaped confetti.

I used to own Captain January, by Laura E. Richards -- my edition was in a double with The Little Colonel by Annie Fellows Johnston, with Shirley Temple movie illos on the covers.