Child life in colonial days
Series: Social science reprints; Social science reprints
Publisher: Corner House Publishers
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Williamstown, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780879280628
Subjects: Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Children
Description: At the end of the 19th century, after Americans had endured thirty years of tremendous change due to rapid industrial growth, social upheavals, and the excesses of the Gilded Age, they began to look back with increasing fondness to their own past. The Colonial Revival in architecture was one fruit of this nostalgia; another was the insightful chronicles of social history in earlier days written by this author. Following the success of her book Home Life in Colonial Days, she wrote a detailed and fascinating account of American children and their lives from the very earliest settlers to the first decades of the new republic. Covering everything from dress to toys, schools to play, discipline and religion, she described in highly readable prose a child's life in the days before the railroad and telegraph.
Notes: "First published 1899; reprinted 1975."
Table of contents: title: Babyhood; title: Children's dress; title: Schools and school life; title: Women teachers and girl scholars; title: Hornbook and primer; title: School-books; title: Penmanship and letters; title: Diaries and commonplace books; title: Childish precocity; title: Oldtime discipline; title: Manners and courtesy; title: Religious thought and training; title: Religious books; title: Story and picture books; title: Children's diligence; title: Needlecraft and decorative arts; title: Games and pastimes; title: Children's toys; title: Flower lore of children.