Prep School Children
A Class Apart over Two Centuries
(Sprache: Englisch)
In a compelling and sometimes shocking account, Vyvyen Brendon dwells not on the adult purposes behind a peculiarly British institution but on the lives of the children.
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In a compelling and sometimes shocking account, Vyvyen Brendon dwells not on the adult purposes behind a peculiarly British institution but on the lives of the children.
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Since the days when nine-year-old Tom Brown set off by stage coach to be prepared for entry to Rugby, middle-class British boys have been sent away to prep school. Here children aged seven to thirteen have been systematically groomed for public school, for gentlemanly life, for military service, for colonial rule and for worldly or, in the case of Harry Potter, wizardly success.In a compelling and sometimes shocking account, Vyvyen Brendon dwells not on the adult purposes behind a peculiarly British institution but on the lives of the children. More than two hundred youngsters appear in these pages, describing their schooldays through memoirs, letters, diaries, poetry, fiction and interviews. The impressions left, happy or miserable, comic or tragic, were indelible.
The pupils' responses were seldom expressed at the time for, according to the ancient maxim, children should be seen but not heard. This book gives them a voice. In doing so it reveals a neglected area in the history of childhood and casts a sharp beam of light on the national character.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Prep School Children “
Introduction - 'How Would You Know?' 1. 'A Little Roughing It' - Georgian Boys' Schools 2. 'The Only Way to Bring up Boys' - Victorian Prep Schools 3. 'Three Stumps, One Wicket' - Late Victorian and Edwardian Heyday 4. 'Too Young to Gird on the Sword' - The First World War 5. 'All the Ghastly Smells of School' - The Inter-War Period 6. 'A Higher Sense of Sacrifice' - The Second World War 7. 'How to Be Topp' - The Post-War World 8. 'Boiled Mince and Incense' - The Swinging Sixties 9. 'The Harry Potter Effect' - Modern Prep Schools 10. 'The Most Potent Memory of My Life' - The Effects of the Prep School Experience
Autoren-Porträt von Vyvyen Brendon
Vyvyen Brendon read History at St Anne's College, Oxford. After a career in teaching she retired as Head of History at St Mary's School, Cambridge, to take up full-time research and writing. Her most recent book is Children of the Raj. She keeps in touch with children though her work as trustee of a nursery school and through her three grandsons.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Vyvyen Brendon
- 2009, 246 Seiten, Maße: 15,7 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Continuum
- ISBN-10: 1847062873
- ISBN-13: 9781847062871
Sprache:
Englisch
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I enjoyed reading [Brendon's] previous book [Children of the Raj] and I have enjoyed reading its successor.--Sanford Lakoff
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