The Rise And Fall Of The British Nanny

Author : Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571321704

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The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy Pdf

First published in 1972, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy's The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny became an instant classic of social history - a groundbreaking study of the golden era of an extraordinary and exclusive British institution. Drawing upon extensive paper research and interviews with former nannies and their charges, Gathorne-Hardy offers 'a study of a unique and curious way of bringing up children, which evolved among the upper and upper-middle-classes during the nineteenth century, flourished for approximately eighty years and then, with the Second World War, vanished for ever.' The nanny hereby earns her place in the story of the British Empire; also in the histories of psychology, child-rearing and British ruling class mores. 'Marvellously researched and beautifully written.' W. H. Auden, Observer 'Enough to delight the sternest critic.' Auberon Waugh, Harpers & Queen

Author : Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1084275918

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The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy Pdf

Author : Louise Heren
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473880405

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British Nannies & the Great War by Louise Heren Pdf

In 1912, Norland childrens nurse Kate Fox was travelling by train heading to the British military station at Nowshera on the Afghan border to care for the premature baby born to the bases commanding officer. Two years later, Kate was escaping from Germany in the first days of the Great War, leaving behind her adored German royal charges and all her personal possessions. Due to their prestige as the crme-de-la-crme of Edwardian childrens nurses to Europes royal and wealthy families, Kate was one among many Norland nannies who witnessed the early days of the War on the Continent with all its tumult and fear. Some fled for home; others managed to stay for a while. And yet others gave up their privileged way of life to undertake war work as nurses in Flanders and refugee camps.The stories in this book are the nannies eye-witness accounts described in their correspondence with their beloved Norland Institute. These previously unpublished letters recount a version of womens Great War history that has remained untold until now. British Nannies and the Great War is the true story of a group of Edwardian, highly trained and opinionated women in the First World War. For the first time in a century, the Norland nannies unique stories of escape from enemy territory, their experiences at home and the Front during the War, and their thoughts on how the conflict changed their role in post-Edwardian Britain are told in their own words.

Author : Mass Observation
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571280841

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The Pub and the People by Mass Observation Pdf

Mass Observation was founded in 1937 with the aim of researching the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. One of its best-loved publications is The Pub and the People (1943), a unique study of one of Britain's best-loved pastimes, describing how people behaved in pubs, what and how much they drank, and the decor and layout of the average pre-war alehouse. Alongside sociological interest it offers amusing insights into an era when supping pints was only for the roughest customers, and beer was considered helpful not only to general health ('There is no bad ale, so Grandma said') but also (contra the porter in Macbeth) to the act of love. 'The authors of this book have unearthed much curious information.' George Orwell, Listener 'Anyone with an interest in the history of beer and pubs in Britain ought to read it.' Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog

Author : Anne Mcclintock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135209100

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Imperial Leather by Anne Mcclintock Pdf

Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the gendering of nationalism within the zones of imperial and anti-imperial power.

Author : Annmarie Adams
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0773522395

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Architecture in the Family Way by Annmarie Adams Pdf

Architecture in the Family Way explores the relationship between domestic architecture, health reform, and feminism in late nineteenth-century England. Annmarie Adams examines the changing perceptions about the English middle-class house from 1870 to 1900, highlighting how attitudes toward health, women, home life, and even politics were played out in architecture.

Author : Katherine Holden
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750951661

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Nanny Knows Best by Katherine Holden Pdf

Nanny know best

Author : E. S. Turner
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571295180

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What the Butler Saw by E. S. Turner Pdf

'A book which goes on a special shelf in my library.' P.G. Wodehouse What the Butler Saw (1962) is one of E.S. Turner's most pertinent and illuminating 'social histories', an exploration of the 'upstairs/downstairs' relationship across three centuries of English life. Drawing on literature, contemporary accounts and household manuals, Turner describes in fascinating detail how it came to be that the upper classes felt a need for an ever larger household staff, engaged in every imaginable form of drudgery; and, accordingly, how those in service - from high to low, butler to footman, housemaid to au pair - had to give satisfaction to their masters and mistresses while also, on occasions, contending with physical blows, tantrums, and (in the cases of some unfortunate servant girls) threats to their virtue.

Author : Alison Adburgham
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571295913

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Silver Fork Society by Alison Adburgham Pdf

During the years when George IV ruled the United Kingdom, first as Prince Regent then as King, his extravagant tastes served to characterize the times - the Regency period being identified strongly with new trends in British architecture, fashion and culture. The literary expression of this era was the genre of so-called 'silver fork' novels set in fashionable London society. Initially devoured as authentic insights into the rarefied world of the best social circles, these novels were thus serving as etiquette primers for growing numbers of nouveaux riches. The detail and décor of the novels gives them an enduring socio-historical interest, hence the value of Alison Adburgham's study, first published in 1983, which offers astute readings of such 'silver fork' specialists as Disraeli, Bulwer-Lytton, and Catherine Gore. With an assured eye for the social context of these works, Adburgham explores the class tensions and complex social interactions behind the high sheen of the silver fork.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004446595

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In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity by Anonim Pdf

For the international cast of contributors to this volume being “in fashion” is about self-presentation; defining how fashion is presented in the visual, written, and performing arts; and about design, craft manufacturing, packaging, marketing, and archives.

Author : Jeremy Musson
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848543874

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Up and Down Stairs by Jeremy Musson Pdf

Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes this segregation was broken, as with the famous marriage of a squire to his dairymaid at Uppark. Jeremy Musson captures the voices of the servants who ran these vast houses, and made them work. From unpublished memoirs to letters, wages, newspaper articles, he pieces together their daily lives from the Middle Ages through to the twentieth century. The story of domestic servants is inseparable from the story of the country house as an icon of power, civilisation and luxury. This is particularly true with the great estates such as Chatsworth, Hatfield, Burghley and Wilton. Jeremy Musson looks at how these grand houses were, for centuries, admired and imitated around the world.

Author : Pamela Horn
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445615783

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Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, the Edwardian Era to 1939 by Pamela Horn Pdf

A fascinating glimpse of life below stairs, This book tells the stories of the lives the people who lived and worked there.

Author : Edward Higgs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317268130

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Domestic Servants and Households in Rochdale by Edward Higgs Pdf

First published in 1986. At any one time in late nineteenth-century England and Wales over one million men and women were described as domestic servants in the occupational category after agricultural work. This title explores several aspects of domestic service in the area of Rochdale, and the servant population is examined to discover who entered the service, at what age, and from what background they came. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Author : Giorgia Grilli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135868024

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Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins by Giorgia Grilli Pdf

The Mary Poppins that many people know of today--a stern, but sweet, loveable, and reassuring British nanny--is a far cry from the character created by Pamela Lyndon Travers in the 1930's. Instead, this is the Mary Poppins reinvented by Disney in the eponymous movie. This book sheds light on the original Mary Poppins, Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins is the only full-length study that covers all the Mary Poppins books, exposing just how subversive the pre-Disney Mary Poppins character truly was. Drawing important parallels between the character and the life of her creator, who worked as a governess herself, Grilli reveals the ways in which Mary Poppins came to unsettle the rigid and rigorous rules of Victorian and Edwardian society that most governesses embodied, taught, and passed on to their charges.

Author : Deborah Gorham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136248115

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The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal by Deborah Gorham Pdf

In Victorian England, the perception of girlhood arose not in isolation, but as one manifestation of the prevailing conception of femininity. Examining the assumptions that underlay the education and upbringing of middle-class girls, this book is also a study of the learning of gender roles in theory and reality. It was originally published in 1982. The first two sections examine the image of women in the Victorian family, and the advice offered in printed sources on the rearing of daughters during the Victorian period. To illustrate the effect and evolution of feminine ideals over the Victorian period, the book’s final section presents the actual experiences of several middle-class Victorian women who represent three generations and range, socioeconomically, from lower-middle class through upper-middle class.