Children of the Great Country Houses by Adeline Hartcup (Second Hand)

A lively and intimate social history of childhood inside Britain’s great aristocratic households. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, and family albums, Adeline Hartcup reveals the daily routines, privileges, restrictions, and emotional worlds of the children who grew up in the great houses of the Howards, Cecils, Russells, Lyttletons, and Gladstones. The book explores relationships with nannies, tutors, and governesses, the contrast between privilege and duty, and the stark divide between the nursery and the world beyond the estate gates. Richly illustrated and full of personal detail, it offers a vivid portrait of upper‑class childhood in the 19th and early 20th centuries. 

ISBN : 0283993383

£2.00

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