The Crofton Boys
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~52,800 words · 251 passages
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- APAHarriet Martineau. (n.d.). The Crofton Boys. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/harriet-martineau/the-crofton-boys
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What it is about
A novel for boys: a child loses a foot in a school accident and must remake his life.
Context and history
Children's literature without sentimentality, a rare thing in 1841. Martineau, deaf since youth, knew what she was writing about when she wrote of living in a body that does not do what is asked of it.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works in the International Children's Digital Library.) THE CROFTON BOYS BY HARRIET MARTINEAU AUTHOR OF "THE PEASANT AND THE PRINCE," "FEATS ON THE FIORD," ETC., ETC. LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL NEW YORK: 9, LAFAYETTE PLACE Ballantyne Press BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO., EDINBURGH CHANDOS STREET, LONDON CONTENTS. I. ALL THE PROCTORS BUT PHIL II. WHY MR. TOOKE CAME III. MICHAELMAS-DAY COME IV. MICHAELMAS-DAY OVER V. CROFTON PLAY VI. FIRST RAMBLE VII. WHAT IS ONLY TO BE HAD AT HOME VIII. A LONG DAY IX. CROFTON QUIET X. LITTLE VICTORIES XI. DOMESTIC MANNERS XII. HOLT AND HIS DIGNITY XIII. TRIPPING XIV. HOLT AND HIS HELP XV. CONCLUSION THE CROFTON BOYS. CHAPTER I. ALL THE PROCTORS BUT PHIL. Mr. Proctor, the chemist and druggist, kept his shop, and lived in the Strand, London. His children thought that there was never anything pleasanter than the way they lived. Their house was warm in winter, and such a little distance from the church, that they had no difficulty in getting to church and back again, in the worst weather, before their shoes were wet. They were also conveniently near to Covent Garden market; so that, if any friend dropped in to dinner unexpectedly, Jane and Agnes could be off to the market, and buy a fowl, or some vegetables or fruit, and be back again before they were missed. It was not even too far for little Harry to trot with one of his sisters, early on a summer's morning, to spend his penny (when he happened to have one) on a bunch of flowers, to lay on papa's plate, to surprise him when he came in to breakfast. Not much farther off was the Temple Garden, where Mrs. Proctor took her children every fine summe
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