Growing Up in England

"Fletcher has written an important synthesis of the rearing of elite English children in the modern period. Using a wide variety of sources including diaries and letters, Fletcher details a continuity in parenting that has been generally overlooked. Recommended. All academic levels/libraries."—Choice

~Choice

"Growing Up in England is a valuable contribution to the histories of gender, families, education, and children. His simple argument: "gendered parenting. . . produced gendered children" should spur new inquiries into the gendered nature not only of childhood, but of adulthood and the institutions they created and inhabited." —Amy Harris, Journal of British Studies

~Amy Harris, Journal of British Studies

"For Fletcher, children were instructed in class-specific masculinity and femininity in order that they could perform their gendered roles as adults. . . . Fletcher draws on extensive existing scholarship, as well as archival and printed source material, to demonstrate this thesis copiously. . . . Fletcher is intimately acquainted with the extraordinary relics of the Trench family, the twelve volumes of Lucy Lyttelton's lyrical diary, and many other gems dug up from county record offices."—Aysha Pollnitz, Journal of Modern History

~Aysha Pollnitz, Journal of Modern History

"Meticulously documented...[Growing up in England draws] on a wealth of firsthand accounts of parents and children in letters and diaries."--Andrew O'Malley, 1650-1850

~Andrew O'Malley, 1650-1850