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The Life and Times Of A Victorian Country Doctor : A Portrait Of Reginald Grove - Volume 2 : Life At Boarding School (Paperback)
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The Life and Times Of A Victorian Country Doctor : A Portrait Of Reginald Grove - Volume 2 : Life At Boarding School (Paperback)
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This is the second volume of a trilogy that describes the life of
Reginald Grove, a country GP, who began his medical career in the
late Victorian period after training at Guy's Hospital, London. It
vividly describes his life at boarding school from aged eight to
eighteen. The fictional life of Victorian boarding schools is well
known from Dicken's description of Dotheboys Hall, in 'Nicolas
Nickleby' featuring the sadistic Headmaster, Wackford Squeers to
Thomas Hughes's 'Tom Brown's School Days', remembered chiefly for
the brutish bully, the infamous Harry Flashman, at Rugby School.
But there are very few accounts based on true life. This is one of
them. Using his diaries and other contemporary documents, it
portrays his life as a chorister at King's College Chapel
Cambridge, and then at Uppingham School under the great Victorian
Headmaster, Edward Thring. The brutality described in the fictious
accounts is replaced by a more balanced portrait of school life
describing lessons in the classics, sports and games, punishments,
the battle for moral purity, sixth form privileges and the
friendships that he made. He left Uppingham a good all rounder,
presented with a medal by Thring 'for good work and unblemished
character'. On the last day of the summer term 1887 'all the house
came to my dormitory very early to say goodbye to me'. It was an
emotional end to his school life.
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