Prep school children : a class apart over two centuries /: a class apart over two centuries. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Vyvyen Brendon.
• Other Names: Brendon, Vyvyen
• Contents: Introduction : how would you know? -- A little roughing it : Georgian boys' schools -- The only way to bring up boys : Victorian prep schools -- Three stumps, one wicket : late Victorian and Edwardian heyday -- Too young to gird the sword : the First World War -- All the ghastly smells of school : the inter-war period -- How to be Topp : the post-war world -- Boiled mince and incense : the swinging sixties -- The Harry Potter effect : modern prep schools -- The most potent memory of my life : the effects of the prep school experience.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates), illustrations
• Subjects: 373.2220941; Preparatory schools -- Great Britain; Preparatory school students -- Great Britain -- Social conditions; Preparatory school students -- Psychology; EDUCATION -- Secondary; Preparatory school students -- Social conditions; Preparatory schools; Preparatory school; Schüler; Great Britain; Großbritannien; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441121868; 1441121862
• Related ISBNs: 9781847062871; 1847062873
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-236) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.