Prep School Children: A Class Apart over Two Centuries
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...
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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.
Illustrations viiAcknowledgements ixIntroduction: 'How Would You Know?' 11 'A Little Roughing It': Georgian Boys' Schools 92 'The Only Way to Bring up Boys': Victorian Prep Schools 293 'Three Stumps, One Wicket': Late Victorian and Edwardian Heyday 514 'Too Young to Gird on the Sword': The First World War 755 'All the Ghastly Smells of School': The Inter-War Period 936 'A Higher Sense of Sacrifice': The Second World War 1157 'How to be Topp': The Post-War World 1378 'Boiled Mince and Incense': The Swinging Sixties 1599 'The Harry Potter Effect': Modern Prep Schools 18110 'The Most Potent Memory of My Life': The Effects of the Prep School Experience 203Endnotes 215Bibliography 233Index 237
