Author: YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM
Title: Terms & Conditions. Life in Girls` Boarding-Schools, 1939"1979
Description: Slightly Foxed Ltd. 2016. Linnen band. Pp: 432. As we discover from Ysenda Maxtone Graham`s quietly hilarious history of life in British girls` boarding-schools between 1939 and 1979, this was a not untypical reaction. Today it`s hard to grasp the casual carelessness and even hostility with which the middle and upper classes once approached the schooling of their daughters. Education, far from being regarded as something that would set a girl up for life, was seen as a handicap which could render her too unattractive for marriage, and with some notable exceptions such as Cheltenham, schools went along with the idea. While their brothers at Eton and Harrow were writing Latin verse and doing quadratic equations, girls were being allowed to give up any subject they found too difficult and were instead learning how to lay the table for lunch.nFathers tended to choose schools for arbitrary and often frankly frivolous reasons. Hatherop, for example, was popular with some because of its proximity to Cheltenham Racecourse. One girl`s parents chose Heathfield - because none of the girls had spots`. Not surprising perhaps that many of them left school without a single O-level. ISBN: 9781906562939. Cond./Kwaliteit: Als nieuw.
Keywords: 9781906562939
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Title: Terms & Conditions. Life in Girls` Boarding-Schools, 1939"1979
Description: Slightly Foxed Ltd. 2016. Linnen band. Pp: 432. As we discover from Ysenda Maxtone Graham`s quietly hilarious history of life in British girls` boarding-schools between 1939 and 1979, this was a not untypical reaction. Today it`s hard to grasp the casual carelessness and even hostility with which the middle and upper classes once approached the schooling of their daughters. Education, far from being regarded as something that would set a girl up for life, was seen as a handicap which could render her too unattractive for marriage, and with some notable exceptions such as Cheltenham, schools went along with the idea. While their brothers at Eton and Harrow were writing Latin verse and doing quadratic equations, girls were being allowed to give up any subject they found too difficult and were instead learning how to lay the table for lunch.nFathers tended to choose schools for arbitrary and often frankly frivolous reasons. Hatherop, for example, was popular with some because of its proximity to Cheltenham Racecourse. One girl`s parents chose Heathfield - because none of the girls had spots`. Not surprising perhaps that many of them left school without a single O-level. ISBN: 9781906562939. Cond./Kwaliteit: Als nieuw.
Keywords: 9781906562939
Price: EUR 65.00 = appr. US$ 70.65 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2189981
- Book number: 2189981
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