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Victorian Childhoods
Ginger S. Frost
ISBN:
0-275-98966-6
ISBN-13:
978-0-275-98966-8
DOI:
DOI:10.1336/0275989666
208 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication:
12/30/2008
List Price:
$44.95
(
UK Sterling Price: £31.95
)
Availability:
In Stock
Media Type:
Hardcover
Trim Size:
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
History
»
European History -- Modern/20th Century
History
»
European History (General)
Literature
»
English Literature
Series Title:
Victorian Life and Times
Reviews:
"Dividing the book by aspects most common to children, infancy, school, work and play, Frost shows the wide range of experience that children experienced. She then considers the goals of adults in molding the character of the next generation, the fate of foundlings, the very poor, and disabled children and the, sometimes misguided, efforts of reformers. Over the century, she notices an increase in the marketing of toys and books for children of all economic strata and also more emphasis on public education. Frost gives a multi-faceted presentation of the subject, accessible to scholars and general readers alike."
—Reference & Research Book News
5/1/2009
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.
Table of Contents:
Series Forward
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Children and the Family
2. School Days
3. Child Labor in Victorian Britain
4. Victorian Children at Play
5. For God and Country: Building the Better Boy (and Girl)
6. Lost Boys and Girls
7. The Victorian Expansion of Childhood
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author:
Ginger S. Frost
is Professor of History at Samford University in Birmingham, AL. She is the author of
Promises Broken: Courtship, Class and Gender in Victorian England
and
Living in Sin: Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century England
as well as numerous articles. She has received fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and served as President of the Southern Conference on British Studies from 2002 to 2003.
PDF Catalogs:
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