1st Edition

The Rise of the English Prep School

By Donald Leinster-Mackay Copyright 1984
    416 Pages
    by Routledge

    416 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1984, The Rise of the English Prep School was written to provide the first general history of the English Preparatory School.

    The book examines how two types of English schools with largely different beginnings, one based on private enterprise and one primarily (but by no means exclusively) on philanthropy, came to be complementary parts of the ‘English Public School system’. It explores the early beginnings of prep or quasi-prep schools in the eighteenth century and their development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

    The Rise of the English Prep School will appeal to those with an interest in the history of education, and British social history.

    Part 1: Emergence; Part 2: Giving Early Satisfaction; Part 3: Heyday; Part 4: Coming to Terms with Contemporaneity; Bibliography, Appendices; Index

    Biography

    Donald Leinster-Mackay