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| Author | : Annabel Huth Jackson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2016-07-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317246624 |
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 | : Thomas E. Jordan |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 1987-09-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1438408056 |
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 | : Amberyl Malkovich |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 0415899087 |
By examining some of Dickens's works that contain the imperfect child, Malkovich considers the construction, romanticization, and socialization of the Victorian child within work read by and for children during the Victorian Era, contending that the Victorian child can still be found in popular literatures read by children contemporarily.
| Author | : Ruth Thomson |
| Publisher | : Franklin Watts |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2013-03 |
| Genre | : Children |
| ISBN | : 9781445121017 |
The lives of Victorian children at home, work, school, and at play explored through a mixture of archive photography, period illustrations and artefacts.
| Author | : Laura C. Berry |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780813934570 |
The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as "childhood" became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about child welfare and the role of the family in society. Berry examines the nineteenth-century fascination with victimized children to show how novels and reform writings reorganize ideas of self and society as narratives of childhood distress. Focusing on classic childhood stories such as Oliver Twist and novels that are not conventionally associated with particular social problems, such as Dickens's Dombey and Son, the Brontë sisters' Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot's Adam Bede, Berry shows the ways in which fiction that purports to deal with private life, particularly the domain of the family, nevertheless intervenes in public and social debates. At the same time she examines medical, legal, charitable, and social-relief writings to show how these documents provide crucial sources in the development of social welfare and modern representations of the family.
| Author | : Therese Oneill |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2019-04-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0316481890 |
From the author of the "hysterically funny and unsettlingly fascinating" New York Times bestseller Unmentionable, a hilarious illustrated guide to the secrets of Victorian child-rearing (Jenny Lawson). Feminist historian Therese Oneill is back, to educate you on what to expect when you're expecting . . . a Victorian baby! In Ungovernable, Oneill conducts an unforgettable tour through the backwards, pseudoscientific, downright bizarre parenting fashions of the Victorians, advising us on: How to be sure you're not too ugly, sickly, or stupid to breed What positions and room decor will help you conceive a son How much beer, wine, cyanide and heroin to consume while pregnant How to select the best peasant teat for your child Which foods won't turn your children into sexual deviants And so much more. Endlessly surprising, wickedly funny, and filled with juicy historical tidbits and images, Ungovernable provides much-needed perspective on -- and comic relief from -- the age-old struggle to bring up baby.
| Author | : Pamela Horn |
| Publisher | : Alan Sutton Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Children |
| ISBN | : 9780750914994 |
'A totally fascinating account of Victorian country life' -- The Good Book Guide This book describes the varied aspects of country life in the last century from a child's point of view. The author discusses all aspects of their day-to-day experiences, including living conditions, food, school life, work on the land, agricultural policies and how they affected children, local and cottage industries, the Church and its influence, and crime and punishment.
| Author | : Sarah Seaton |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2017-06-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1473877040 |
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 | : Louise A. Jackson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1134736649 |
Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England is the first detailed investigation of the way that child abuse was discovered, debated, diagnosed and dealt with in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. The focus is placed on the child and his or her experience of court procedure and welfare practice, thereby providing a unique and important evaluation of the treatment of children in the courtroom. Through a series of case studies, including analyses of the criminal courts, the author examines the impact of legislation at grass roots level, and demonstrates why this was a formative period in the legal definition of sexual abuse. Providing a much-needed insight into Victorian attitudes, including that of Christian morality, this book makes a distinctive contribution to the history of crime, social welfare and the family. It also offers a valuable critique of current work on the history of children's homes and institutions, arguing that the inter-personal relationships of children and carers is a crucial area of study.
