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Douglas Sutherland The English Gentleman's Child
The Viking Press 1980 067029683X / 9780670296835 Cloth Very Good Very Good
067029683X A few tears and some sun fading of dustjacket spine. Covered with protective archival sleeve. Clipped. Textblock is clean and unmarked. 78 p. humourous insights into the life and customs of mid-20th century english upper class parenting and childhood. Humorous (fortified by witty line drawings) and rather nostalgic recollections of traditional childhood rearing patterns of priviledged English children of a bygone era, and in particular of the male child. The stages of instillation of patterns of behavior and values (and perhaps emotions) in molding of the final product are: Chapter 1, Post-Natal Impressions; 2, The Nursery; 3, The Nursery System; 4, An Introduction to Education; 5, The Happiest Days of Your Life; 6, Oh, To Be Beside the Seaside; 7, The Alma Mater; 8, Girls" Schools; 9, University; and 10, The Final Product. Fine copy.. First American Edition, First Thus. Hard Cover. New/New. Illus. by Timothy Jaques (Illustrator). Debrett"s Peerage/Viking Press
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