{"product_id":"growing-up-in-england-the-experience-of-childhood-16001914-9780300163964","title":"Growing Up in England The Experience of Childhood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents a 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, this book revises previous understandings of parenting and what it was like to grow up in the period between 1600 and 1914.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fletcher has written an important synthesis of the rearing of elite English children in the modern period. Using a wide variety of sources including diaries and letters, Fletcher details a continuity in parenting that has been generally overlooked. Recommended. All academic levels\/libraries.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGrowing Up in England\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable contribution to the histories of gender, families, education, and children. His simple argument: \"gendered parenting. . . produced gendered children\" should spur new inquiries into the gendered nature not only of childhood, but of adulthood and the institutions they created and inhabited.\" —Amy Harris, \u003ci\u003eJournal of British Studies\u003c\/i\u003e -- Amy Harris * Journal of British Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"For Fletcher, children were instructed in class-specific masculinity and femininity in order that they could perform their gendered roles as adults. . . . Fletcher draws on extensive existing scholarship, as well as archival and printed source material, to demonstrate this thesis copiously. . . . Fletcher is intimately acquainted with the extraordinary relics of the Trench family, the twelve volumes of Lucy Lyttelton's lyrical diary, and many other gems dug up from county record offices.\"—Aysha Pollnitz, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e -- Aysha Pollnitz * Journal of Modern History *\u003cbr\u003e\"Meticulously documented...[\u003ci\u003eGrowing up in England\u003c\/i\u003e draws] on a wealth of firsthand accounts of parents and children in letters and diaries.\"--Andrew O'Malley, \u003ci\u003e1650-1850\u003c\/i\u003e -- Andrew O'Malley * 1650-1850 *","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401514656087,"sku":"9780300163964","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300163964.jpg?v=1730477670","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/growing-up-in-england-the-experience-of-childhood-16001914-9780300163964","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}