The Story of the Nursery

by Magdalen King-Hall

Originally published in 1958, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032367687
• ISBN13: 9781032367682
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"