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      Women’s Accounts of Being Sent to Boarding School

      Finding Our Way Home

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      Finding Our Way Home book

      Women’s Accounts of Being Sent to Boarding School
      Edited ByNikki Simpson
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 14 June 2018
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351065542
      Pages 158
      eBook ISBN 9781351065542
      Subjects Behavioral Sciences, Education
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      Simpson, N. (Ed.). (2018). Finding Our Way Home: Women’s Accounts of Being Sent to Boarding School (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351065542

      ABSTRACT

      Finding Our Way Home: Women’s Accounts of Being Sent to Boarding School shares the personal stories of sixteen women, all of whom were sent away to board at an early age. Their accounts delve into the depths of long suppressed emotions and feelings, and the lifelong impact that the early separation from their families has had.

      Much has been written about the impact of ‘boarding school syndrome’ on male boarders, but less about their female counterparts. This book is the first to explore the experience from a purely female perspective, and offers an intriguing insight into the world of boarding schools and the upbringing of girls born in the mid-to-late 20th century.

      Finding Our Way Home is a book for everyone who ever attended boarding school, as well as psychotherapists and counsellors working with boarding school survivors.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |8 pages

      On becoming a boarder

      ByLouise Sinclair

      chapter |8 pages

      Skinny dipping in the Rhine

      ByFrances Den Hollander

      chapter |6 pages

      My story

      ByNatasha Wilson

      chapter |6 pages

      Being sent, then and now

      ByCaroline Giddens

      chapter |8 pages

      Finding my way home

      The daughter’s story
      ByNikki Simpson

      chapter |8 pages

      Memories from my formative years

      The mother’s story
      ByMarianne Simpson

      chapter |7 pages

      Give and take

      ByAlison Higgs

      chapter |8 pages

      The story of a little girl lost

      ByColette Knight

      chapter |11 pages

      Paradise lost

      ByIsobel Henderson

      chapter |6 pages

      Sometimes

      ByJo Trotter

      chapter |9 pages

      Boarding school musings

      ByMargot Oakenby

      chapter |7 pages

      Privileged deprivation

      ByMarcia Turner

      chapter |8 pages

      Coming in from the cold

      BySusanna Hoare

      chapter |10 pages

      The severe housemistress

      ByPatricia Morris

      chapter |6 pages

      The trunk

      ByMargaret Laughton

      chapter |8 pages

      Whispering walls

      ByElizabeth Routledge

      chapter |2 pages

      Afterword

      ByJane Barclay

      chapter |7 pages

      Afterword

      A psychotherapist’s reflections
      ByPippa Foster

      chapter |3 pages

      Where to go for support/more information

      Edited ByNikki Simpson
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