"The Crofton Boys" by Harriet Martineau is a story that follows Hugh Proctor, a young boy leaving his London home for the first time to attend the Crofton boarding school. Readers learn about Hugh's life with his family as he prepares to depart. Anxious about academics and missing his mother, Hugh meets his brother Philip, already a student, and new friends, as well as boys who are not friendly, and will shape his time at the school. He deals with bullying, strives to fit in, and seeks to demonstrate his capabilities to those around him. As Hugh navigates his new surroundings, he discovers the meaning of friendship, how to bounce back from tough situations, and what it means to find himself.
The Crofton Boys
By Harriet Martineau
A young boy bravely enters boarding school, where he must learn to overcome bullies and academic challenges in order to discover himself.
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2007-10-31
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About the AuthorHarriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation. Martineau advised "a focus on all [society's] aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions". She applied thorough analysis to women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant called her "a born lecturer and politician... less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other, male or female, of her generation."
Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation. Martineau advised "a focus on all [society's] aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions". She applied thorough analysis to women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant called her "a born lecturer and politician... less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other, male or female, of her generation."
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