Author: WRIGHT, SIMON
Title: Waterfield's School - a Preparatory School in Its Victorian Heyday
Description: The Herons Ghyll Press. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0952327600). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page with dedication. A Fine unmarked copy apart from the dedication with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xii + 244 pages. 62 illustrations. Bullied, flogged and half-starved, their lessons an unending diet of gerund-grinding, their games mere free-for-alls with few rules and no referees, this in popular imagination - was the regime endured at boarding schools for 40 weeks of every year by the sons of the privileged classes. To what extent does it give a fair picture of independent education in the 19th century? The author begins with a bleak survey of the various types of school in existence in the early 1800's before turning his attention to the most famous of them all, Eton. He goes on to consider the new public schools from 1840 onwards and shows that as public schools raised the age of admission, so preparatory schools began to flourish. The core of the book is a detailed study of one prep school, Temple Grove (founded in 1810 and still going strong) under its famous Headmaster, Ottiwell Waterfield (1859-1880). A1E. Fine/Fine. Signed by Author.

Keywords: Victorian Education, Preparatory Schools, Ottiwell Waterfield, Temple Grove School, Eton College 0952327600


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