Title Growing up in England : the experience of childhood, 1600-1914 / Anthony Fletcher

Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2008]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 434 pages) : illustrations Contents Childhood -- Boyhood -- Girlhood -- Parenthood -- Care and affection -- Marital partnership -- Children who died -- Maternity -- Motherly performance -- Fatherly performance -- Fathers and educating boys -- Mothers and educating boys -- The public schools -- Boys at university -- The schoolroom -- Girls at school -- Training for society -- Personal testimony -- Home -- School -- Travel -- Friendship and love -- Identity : class, nation and gender Summary "This book presents an entirely fresh view of the upbringing of English children in upper and professional class families over three centuries. Drawing on direct testimony from contemporary diaries and letters, the book revises previous understandings of parenting and what it was like to grow up in the period between 1600 and 1914." "Using advice literature which set out developing ideologies of childhood, gender and parenting, the book explores the separate but complementary roles of mothers and fathers in raising their children. Male upbringing is discussed in terms of schooling, female through the moral and social context of a domestic schoolroom dominated by a governess. Boys were trained for the world, girls for society and marriage. Rare teenage diaries surviving from the Georgian and Victorian periods show teenagers speaking for themselves about education; relationships with parents, siblings and friends; and their social, class and gender identity."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-414) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Children -- England -- History Children and adults -- England -- History Parent and child. Child Rearing -- history Parent-Child Relations Child Welfare -- history History, Modern 1601- Social Conditions -- history History, Early Modern 1451-1600 HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Parent and child Children Children and adults Social conditions Kind Socialhistoria -- barn -- genus -- Storbritannien -- 1600-talet -- 1700-talet -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet. Flickor. Pojkar. Föräldrar. Skolan -- utbildning. Barnadödlighet. Children -- Great Britain -- History. Children and adults -- Great Britain -- History. Parent and child -- Great Britain -- History. Barndomen -- historia -- Storbritannien -- 1600-1914. Familjer -- historia -- Storbritannien -- 1600-1914. SUBJECT England -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043311 England Subject England England Great Britain -- Social conditions. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2007030910 ISBN 9780300168204 0300168209 0300118503 9780300118506

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