Author: Sheila Ferguson Publisher: B.T. Batsford ISBN: Category : Children Languages : en Pages : 82
Book Description
Victorian Britain was a world of overcrowded cities, intensive industrialization, mounting fortunes, and shameful poverty. Yet it was also a world of exciting new discoveries. It was a world of callous indifference to the plight of the working class, but also of far-reaching social and legal reforms. How did the lifestyles of the rich and the poor child differ in Victorian times? Sheila Ferguson looks at their homes and schools, their family life, the books they read, the games they played. She describes the child of the upper classes, his life secure but strictly disciplined; and the poor child at work -- in the mills, down the mines, sweeping the chimneys, and "below stairs."
Author: Thomas E. Jordan Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438408056 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 412
Book Description
This book presents a broad range of original data on childhood in Victorian Britain. It combines a social science approach to data with historical context, resulting in a highly readable account based on sound historiography. Against a backdrop of the industrial revolution, an expanding economy, and a rising standard of living, Victorian Childhood explores life and death, child development, the family, work, education, social life, cities, crime, and advocacy and reform. Presenting data on the deteriorating health of children during the nineteenth century and on their increasing displacement of adults in the workplace, the author demonstrates that they did not share proportionately in the increased standard of living. Jordan's book is a unique piece of scholarship in its range, focus, and presentation. Original sources such as diaries and memoirs not previously cited elsewhere, literature from the period, and anecdotes from the children themselves animate the statistical background and provide vivid pictures of their lives.
Author: Sheila Ferguson Publisher: B.T. Batsford ISBN: Category : Children Languages : en Pages : 80
Book Description
Victorian Britain was a world of overcrowded cities, intensive industrialization, mounting fortunes, and shameful poverty. Yet it was also a world of exciting new discoveries. It was a world of callous indifference to the plight of the working class, but also of far-reaching social and legal reforms. How did the lifestyles of the rich and the poor child differ in Victorian times? Sheila Ferguson looks at their homes and schools, their family life, the books they read, the games they played. She describes the child of the upper classes, his life secure but strictly disciplined; and the poor child at work -- in the mills, down the mines, sweeping the chimneys, and "below stairs."
Author: Carol Dyhouse Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0415623219 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
Girls learn about "femininity" from childhood onwards, first through their relationships in the family, and later from their teachers and peers. Using sources which vary from diaries to Inspector’s reports, this book studies the socialization of middle- and working-class girls in late Victorian and early-Edwardian England. It traces the ways in which schooling at all social levels at this time tended to reinforce lessons in the sexual division of labour and patterns of authority between men and women, which girls had already learned at home. Considering the social anxieties that helped to shape the curriculum offered to working-class girls through the period 1870-1920, the book goes on to focus on the emergence of a social psychology of adolescent girlhood in the early-twentieth century and finally, examines the relationship between feminism and girls’ education.
Author: Anthony Fletcher Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300168209 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 612
Book Description
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.
Author: Sarah Seaton Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1473877040 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
A vivid and graphic survey of the casualties of childhood during the Victorian Era through detailed and never-before-seen firsthand accounts. Take a fascinating journey into the real lives of Victorian children—how they lived, worked, played, and far too often, died before reaching adulthood. These true accounts, many of which had been hidden for more than a century, reveal the hardship and cruel conditions endured by young people living through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution. Here are the lives of a traveling fair child, an apprentice at sea, and a young trapper, as well as the children of prostitutes, servant girls, debutantes, and married women, all unified in the tragedy of early death. Drawing on actual cases of infanticide and baby farming, historian Sarah Seaton uncovers the dismal realities of the Victorian Era’s unwed mothers, whose shame at being pregnant drove them to carry out horrendous crimes. With the introduction of the New Poor Law in 1834, the future for some poor children changed—but not for the better. Yet it was the tragic loss of these many young lives that lead to essential reforms, and eventually to today’s more enlightened views on childhood.
Author: Ginger S. Frost Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313068178 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
The experiences of children growing up in Britain during Victorian times are often misunderstood to be either idyllic or wretched. Yet, the reality was more wide-ranging than most imagine. Here, in colorful detail and with firsthand accounts, Frost paints a complete picture of Victorian childhood that illustrates both the difficulties and pleasures of growing up during this period. Differences of class, gender, region, and time varied the lives of children tremendously. Boys had more freedom than girls, while poor children had less schooling and longer working lives than their better-off peers. Yet some experiences were common to almost all children, including parental oversight, physical development, and age-based transitions. This compelling work concentrates on marking out the strands of life that both separated and united children throughout the Victorian period. Most historians of Victorian children have concentrated on one class or gender or region, or have centered on arguments about how much better off children were by 1900 than 1830. Though this work touches on these themes, it covers all children and focuses on the experience of childhood rather than arguments about it. Many people hold myths about Victorian families. The happy myth is that childhood was simpler and happier in the past, and that families took care of each other and supported each other far more than in contemporary times. In contrast, the unhappy myth insists that childhood in the past was brutal—full of indifferent parents, high child mortality, and severe discipline at home and school. Both myths had elements of truth, but the reality was both more complex and more interesting. Here, the author uses memoirs and other writings of Victorian children themselves to challenge and refine those myths.
Author: Annabel Huth Jackson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317246624 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 158
Book Description
First published in 1932. This title is a first-person account of growing up in Victorian England. The book examines many aspects of the British Empire, and the family life and education of the poet, writer and high society hostess Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff. A Victorian Childhood will be of interest to students of history.
Author: Jillian Powell Publisher: Collins Educational ISBN: 9780007231065 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Imagine you were a child in Victorian times. What was your day like? What did you wear, eat and play with? Did you go to school, or out to work? Find out what life was like for children in this enthralling non-fiction book. - Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view. - A timeline on pages 54 and 55 help children to recap the main events of the Victorian era. - Text type: A non-chronological report - This book is paired with Moving Out a fiction story set in the past about a family in post-World-War-Two London deciding whether to move out to a New Town. - Curriculum links: History: What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain. - This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader
Author: Annabel Huth Jackson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317246632 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 220
Book Description
First published in 1932. This title is a first-person account of growing up in Victorian England. The book examines many aspects of the British Empire, and the family life and education of the poet, writer and high society hostess Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff. A Victorian Childhood will be of interest to students of history.
Author: Sheila Ferguson
Author: Thomas E. Jordan
Author: Sheila Ferguson
Author: Carol Dyhouse
Author: Anthony Fletcher
Author: Sarah Seaton
Author: Ginger S. Frost
Author: Annabel Huth Jackson
Author: Jillian Powell
Author: Annabel Huth Jackson