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“Rotten Effeminate Stuff”: Patriarchy, Domesticity, and Home in Victorian and Edwardian English Public Schools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2019

Jane Hamlett
Jane Hamlett*
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Royal Holloway, University of London
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Abstract

During the nineteenth century, British public schools became increasingly important, turning out thousands of elite young men. Historians have long recognized the centrality of these institutions to modern British history and to understandings of masculinity in this era. While studies of universities and clubs have revealed how fundamental the rituals and everyday life of institutions were to the creation of masculinity, public schools have not been subjected to the same scrutiny. Approaches to date have emphasized the schools’ roles in distancing boys from the world of the home, domesticity, femininity, and women. Focusing on three case-study schools, Winchester College, Charterhouse, and Lancing College, this article offers a reassessment of the relationship between home and school in the Victorian and Edwardian period and contributes to the growing literature on forms of masculine domesticity in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the reformed public schools, the ideal of the patriarchal household was often essential, and in producing it, the presence of significant women—the wives of headmasters and housemasters—could be vital. The schools also worked to create a specifically masculine form of domesticity through boys’ performance of mundane domestic tasks in the “fagging” system, which was often imagined in terms of the chivalric service ideal. Letters from the period show how the everyday worlds of school and home remained enmeshed, revealing the distinctive nature of family relationships forged by the routine of presence and absence that public schools created.

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Journal of British Studies , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , January 2019 , pp. 79 - 108
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Footnotes

The research for this article was supported by an Economic and Social Research Grant for the project At Home in the Institution: Asylum, School and Lodging House Interiors in London and South East England, 1845–1914. I am very grateful to colleagues and friends who read and commented on the article, including Michele Cohen, Stephanie Olsen, Hannah Platts, and David Wilson, and to the editors and anonymous reviewers of the Journal of British Studies. I would also like to express my thanks to the college archivists who have provided help and advice, in particular Suzanne Foster and Catherine Smith.

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