1st Edition

The Story of the Nursery

By Magdalen King-Hall Copyright 1958
306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1958, this reconstruction of the lives of young children of nursery age is an excursion into the past, from the Middle Ages to the opening years of the twentieth century. It tells of the methods, often extraordinary to our ideas, by which they were brought up from babyhood to about seven years old, their clothes, diet, the fearsome remedies that were inflicted on them in... Read more

Acknowledgements.  Introduction.  1. The Middle Ages  2. The Tudor Age  3. Stuart  4. Eighteenth Century  5. Nineteenth Century: Before Victoria, 1800–1837; Victorian, 1837–1870; Victorian 1870–1900.  Books Consulted.  Index.

Biography

Magdalen King-Hall