Mary Hatfield is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin and was formerly the Irish Government Senior Scholar at Hertford College, University of Oxford.

• Introduction 1: Medical Men, Negligent Mothers, and Malleable Children 2: Religion, Sectarianism, and the Wild Irish Child 3: Fashioning Childhood: Gender, Dress, and Manners 4: Schooling Young Gentlewomen: Girlhood Education and the Experience of Boarding School 5: Schooling Little Gentlemen: Irish Boys' Bourgeois and Elite Schools Conclusion Bibliography

an entertaining and informative book ... It is essential reading for any scholar of nighteenth-century culture and ideas, particularly within education, gender and colonialism

Mary Hatfield is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin and was formerly the Irish Government Senior Scholar at Hertford College, University of Oxford.

• Introduction 1: Medical Men, Negligent Mothers, and Malleable Children 2: Religion, Sectarianism, and the Wild Irish Child 3: Fashioning Childhood: Gender, Dress, and Manners 4: Schooling Young Gentlewomen: Girlhood Education and the Experience of Boarding School 5: Schooling Little Gentlemen: Irish Boys' Bourgeois and Elite Schools Conclusion Bibliography

an entertaining and informative book ... It is essential reading for any scholar of nighteenth-century culture and ideas, particularly within education, gender and colonialism

Mary Hatfield is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin and was formerly the Irish Government Senior Scholar at Hertford College, University of Oxford.

• Introduction 1: Medical Men, Negligent Mothers, and Malleable Children 2: Religion, Sectarianism, and the Wild Irish Child 3: Fashioning Childhood: Gender, Dress, and Manners 4: Schooling Young Gentlewomen: Girlhood Education and the Experience of Boarding School 5: Schooling Little Gentlemen: Irish Boys' Bourgeois and Elite Schools Conclusion Bibliography

an entertaining and informative book ... It is essential reading for any scholar of nighteenth-century culture and ideas, particularly within education, gender and colonialism