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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Nanny Knows Best: The History of the British Nanny

Nanny Knows Best: The History of the British Nanny

Holden, Katherine

Hardcover

General ParentingGeneral World HistoryBritish History

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ISBN10: 0752461745
ISBN13: 9780752461748
Publisher: History Press
Published: Sep 1 2013
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Not quite part of the family and more than just an employee; idealised and demonised, the nanny has always had a difficult role in family life. Any discussion of nannies arouses strong emotions in those who have employed them and reveals a sometimes shocking range of experiences both for the nannies and for the children they looked after. Winston Churchill as a child rarely saw his mother and idolized his nanny, paying for fresh flowers to be maintained on her grave and keeping her portrait by his bedside till he died. A nanny to the one of the principal landowning families in Dorset nearly starved their treasured heir to death, while a Suffolk nanny found parting from one of her charges so traumatic that she suffered a mental breakdown.

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