The Story Of The Nursery by Magdalen King-Hall

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 illness, their toys, games, books and first steps in education. It shows how the pristine simplicity of the child’s nature, which hardly alters throughout the centuries, was moulded by the pressure of the adult society around them into some semblance of the accepted contemporary type. This story of the nursery is not only about young children, but about their parents too. There are parents in it who are stern, harsh, even cruel, and many more loving and carefu. This 1958 Routledge and Kegan Paul Hardback is in fair condition. No DJ; First Edition. No dust jacket. Red cloth cover is very marked. Pages spotting throughout. Binding appears in good shape, book is readable.

SKU: 1570779 This image is of the actual book.

SKU: 1570779
Location: History