A Victorian early childhood: the parental record of a baby born in 1892

Karseras, P.

Health Visitor 66(10): 373-374

1993


ISSN/ISBN: 0017-9140
PMID: 8244729
Document Number: 405595
Histories of Victorian child rearing practices have usually concentrated on the most materially deprived sections of society: the communities living in conditions such as necessitated the employment of the Salford sanitary inspectors, writes Patience Karseras. These extracts from the diary of her grandmother chart the milestones and significant events in the early life of a baby--her father--born to a prosperous middle class family.

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