JONATHAN GATHORNE-HARDY: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH NANNY (published 1972)

- See also my notes on Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy on the story of British (or English) 'public schools'. The author seems to have looked into social history, but not as a vehicle for Jewish obsessions. RW 21 nov 2021

    Interesting look at cruelty, class, upper class-ish families hoping for other families to fail so they can get nannies (cf Jane Eyre, I think), psychoanalysis which Gathorne-Hardy thinks necessary - he looked at people like Churchill etc, and interviewed as many nannies as he could and their victims; I think about 90 all told.
    Some rather unpleasant stories, e.g. of child told his or her parents were off to India for five years or something, and who preferred to go out rather than speak to them before leaving them behind; and about Compton Mackenzie and his nanny - the author maintains these people could never admit to themselves that their nannies hated them and were only doing it for the job. And that e.g. otherwise formidable elderly people still quailed before their nannies. Also the nannies made up manners which they imagined were upper class - e.g. making the kids sit at table with one or both hands with palm flat on the table.

    FULL INDEX scanned Nov 1995; NAMES all checked carefully; page numbers slightly ragged

Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell, 81
Aberconway, Lady Christabel, 242
Abergane, Lady, 50, 59
Acland, Eleanor, 78, 217-18, 224, 263, 278-11
Acton, Lord, 186
Acton, William, 90, 93, 95, 101, 266-8, 278-81
Agencies, 66, 73
Albert, Charlotte, 60
Alington, Dr-, 192
All For Mary by Harold Brooke and Kay Bannerman, 254-6
All The Year Round by Charles Dickens, 283
Almedingen, E. M., 132
Amberly, Lord, [correct spelling is Amberley] 41-42
Ambrozic, Dr-, 249
Anglicans, 72
Anstey, F., 217, 276.7, 289
Arapesh, The, jzo
Ariès, Philippe, 43-44, 57
Army and Navy Stores, The, 177
Arran, 2nd Earl of, 155
Asquith, Margot, 4I
Attlee, Clement, 31
Auden, Wystan, 153-4
Au pair girl, 169
Austen, Jane, 61
Austria, Nannies in, 73, 311
Ayahs, 67, 84, 100
Aykroyd, Tabitha, 285


Baa Baa Black Sheep by Rudyard Kipling, 84-89, 189
Baby-The Mother's Magazine, 197
Baldwin, Stanley, 19, 306, 308
Bank, Nanny as, 5, 205
Banks, Joseph, 94.
Bannerman, Kay, 254
Baptists, 72
Bard, Nanny as, 60, 63, 129-31, 134, 282-8
Baring, Maurice, 36, 176
Barley, Nurse, 78, 156, 217-18, 278-81, 329
Barrie, James, 96, 115, 143
Basil Street, 156
Bath, Daphne, 73, 76, 193-6; see also Fielding, Daphne
Bath, 5th Marquess of, 156, 222
Bath, 6th Marquess of, 73, 193
Battered Baby, 274-5
Beardsley Foreground, The, lecture by Brian Reade, 290
Beastley Beatitudes of Balthazar B by J. P. Donleavy, 159-63
Beating, 17, 27, 48-52, 54-56, 59, 70, 74, 85-88, 178, 245-6; See also Cruel Nanny
Beddington, Mrs., 250, 253-4
Beeny, Elsie, see Johnstone, Nanny
Beeton, Mrs., 68
Being Little in Cambridge When Everyone Else Was Big by E. H. Abbott. 81
Bell, Nurse, 249
Benger's food, 275
Bennett, Alan, 243
Benson, Archbishop, 132
Benson, E. F., 132
Bentham, Jeremy, 95
Bernadino, Saint, of Siena, 44, 262
Bettelheim, Bruno, 324-6
Binfield, Nurse, 200, 259, 286
Blankenburg, 177
Blessing, The, by Nancy Mitford, 75, 96, 117
Bloggs, Nanny, 5
Boer, Richard J. de, 319-21, 327-8
Bolton, Nanny, 193
Bonham-Carter, Violet, 22, 24
Boot, Theodore, 5
Boscawen, Mrs., 59
Boswell, James, 49, 56, 302
Boucher, Mrs., 73
Boulogne, Countess Yde [sic] of, 36, 40-41
Bourbel, Miss de, 122, rSz, r68, 237
Bouvier, Jacqueline, zoo
Bracken, Brendan, 25
Breast-feeding, 36-42, 51, 53, 64, 251, 316-22, 324
Brenan, Gerald, 100, 115, 139-40, 143
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 207
Bridges, William, 149
Bridges, Yseult, 293-9
Briggs, Elizabeth, 175
Brightmore, Juliet, 9
Brock, Mrs., 140
Brontë, Charlotte, 71, 72
Brontë family, 285
Brooke, Harold, 254
Broom, Mrs., 195
Browning, Oscar, 305
Bruce-Scott, Maj..Gen-, 150
Buchan, John, 96
Buchanan-Michaelson, Mr. and Mrs., 225-6
Buckles, Nanny, 73, 74, 172-3, 197-8
Budberg, Baroness, 126-9, 143, 151, 187-8
Buddha, 327
Burleigh, Lord, 51
Burney, Fanny, 60
Butler, see Servants, Others
Butterfield, Herbert, 186
Byron, Captain John, 167-8
Byron, Lord, 1613-8, 312


Callijon, Propper de, 188
Cambell, Dr. Graham, 195
Campbells, Irish branch of, 149
Cartland, Barbara, 89
Cathie, Kyle, g
Cecil, Lord David, 94.
Centuries of Childhood by Philippe Ariès, 43-44
Chamber pot, 172, 179, 251, 262-72, 305, 316, 325; See also Psychology of child upbringing and Mussen
Channer, Fanny, 2171 276-7
Chaplin, Charles, 96
Charles, Prince, 68
Charles II, 48, 102-3, jrI
Chartwell, 74.
Chesney, Kellow, 90-91
Chenchu, the, 316
Cheveley, Mrs., 38-39, 60
Child Development and Personality by Mussen, Conger and Kagan, 37, 212.15, 227, 270.1
Child's Garden of verses, A, by R. L. Stevenson, 129
Child Microcosmography, The, by Bishop Earle, 52
Child, The Family and the Outside World, The, Dr. D. W. Winnicott, 100, 317-19
Children of the Dream, The, by Bruno Bettelheim, 324
Christ, 327
Christmas with the Savages by Mary Clive, 80, 135-4, 193, 241
Churchill: Four Faces and the Man by Dr. Anthony Storr, etc., 18
Churchill, Lady Randolph, 22, 26, 28, 31, 33, 76
Churchill, Lord Randolph, 22, 26, 28-29, 31
Churchill, Randolph, 26
Churchill, Winston, 18-19, 21-23, 42, 63, 71, 74, 77-78, 83, 103, 105, 114, 148, 166, 297, 218, 235, 309, 329
Churchill, Lady, 23, 31
Class, Nannies' position in, 71-73, 78-79, 98, 178, 194, 315-16
Clive, Mary, 80, 101-2, 133, 135, 269
Clothes, 46, 99, 112, 144, 174-51, 198, 204, 296; see also Uniform
Collins, Wilkie, 296
Comparative methods of child upbringing, 97-98, 264, 316-27
Compton-Burnett, Ivy, 287
Compton Mackenzie, Sir, see Mackenzie
Conan Doyle, Arthur, 96
Condy, Dr. (and his fluid), 232
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey, 124, 288
Conger, J. J., see Mussen, P, H.
Connolly, Cyril, 91
Constipation, see Chamber pot
Cook, see Servants, Others
Cooper, Elizabeth, 131
Cooper, Lady Diana, 105, 118, 174, 274
Cornish, Mr., 305
Corporal punishment, see Beating
Crabtree, Mrs., 54-55, 631 69, 74-.76
Crawfurd, Diana, 9
Creche News, 197
Creston, Dormer, 218-19, 224, 289-90
Criminal, Nanny as, 157; See also Murderess
Cromwell, Thomas, 48
Croucher, Lizzie, 144-8
Cruel Nanny, 30-31, 60, 63, 70, 83-88, 222-34, 237, 273-308, 313; See also Beating, Discipline, Food, Medicine
Culme-Seymour, Mark, 270
Cultures, different methods of child upbringing, see Comparative
Cunningham, Alison, 129-31
Curry, Annie, see Mackenzie, Sir Compton
Curzon, Lord, 17, 19, 50, 88, 151, 260, 288, 302-9


Daily Mail, 14-8
Daily Sketch, 67
Daily Telegraph, 67, 131
Daisy Walk, see Hyde Park
Dann, S., see Freud, Anna
Darwin, Charles, 176, 283-5, 296
Day of Reckoning, The, by Mary Clive, 101
Denniston, Robin, g
Detached Thoughts by Byron, 164-5
Devonshire, Duke of, 74, 95
Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of, 41, 64
Dickens, Charles, 176, 283-5, 236
Dickson, Nanny, 156
Diddy, see Stevens, Ellen
Dilke, Charles, 127
Discipline, 45-47, 51-57, 82, 85, 121-3, 171-3, 236, 241-7, 258-72, 375-171 331-2; See also Beating, Cruel Nanny, Feeding, Medicine, Mussen, Psychology of child upbringing
Divorce, Nanny's role in, 135-6, 156-7
Dixon, Edwina, 73-4
Dixon, Pierson, 73
Dollymoppers, 103
Donleavy, J. P., 153, 163, 312
Drinking Nannies, 46-47, 114, 232, 243, 277-8
Ducki, see Wilson, Margaret
Duff, Mary, 164-5
Duffy, Antonia, 314
Dunn, Anne, 207-8
Dynastic family, see Extended family


Eager, Nanny, 75-76
Earle, Bishop, 52
Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean, 188
Edward IV, 61
Edwards, Nanny, 206
Elizabeth I, Queen, 33, 51
Ellis, Havelock, 268
Ellis, Nanny, 73, 126, 142, 200, 262, 269
Emile by J..J, Rousseau, 53
Empire, British, 36, 84, 258-31, 311-12
Enter a Child by Dormer Creston, 217-18, 289-90
Eskimos, 319-21
Eton, see Schools
Evelyn, John, 21, 61
Everest, Mrs., 9, 21-26, 33, 71, 74, 76, 105, 126, 148, 207, 223, 209, 312, 329
Explaining English Character by Geoffrey Gorer, 45, 55, 315-16
Extended family, 43-44, 32
Eyre, Peter, 118-21, 126, 138, 143-4, 200, 218, 248


Fairchild Family, The, by Mrs. Sherwood, 175
Fane, Julian, 80, 216, 235-7
Fanny by E. M. Almedingen, 132, 133
Faunce, Miss, 137-8
Fedden, Robin, 311
Feeding, food, 55, 60, 63, 78, 121, 172, 179, 246-53, 276, 291, 303-4, 332-3; see also Breast-feeding
Fellows, Mary, 188
Fels Longitudinal Tests, 2rz
Fielding, Daphne, 120-1, 274; see also Bath, Daphne
Fig, Hilda, 263
Finch, Lady, 141
Firbank, Ronald, 229-30
First World War, 20, 168, 179, 181, 216, 290, 313
Flagellation, 310-11
Ford, Nanny, 222
Forty Years On by Alan Bennett, 243 -4.
Foster-children/parents, 21, 35-361, 84-88
Franco, Nanny, 311 [Englishwoman in Spain]
Fraser, Lady Antonia, 35, 122, 142-3, 222
Freeman, Col., 172
Freud, Anna and S. Dann, 322-24
Freud, Sigmund, 56, 76, 97, 101, 123, 141-3, 185-6, 211, 224, 280, 311, 327
Froebel, Friedrich, 177-8
Fry, Roger, 27


Galen, 45
Gas, Nannies' use of, 19, 274
Gaskell, Mrs., 285
Gathorne-Hardy, Author's grand-mother, 74, 95, 104, 191, 286; Author's mother, 121, 285, 322; Author's Nanny, 241, 322
Gathorne-Hardy, Nanny, 69
George III, 38-39, 60
George VI, [sic] 237
George, Lloyd, see Lloyd George
Gibbs, Mary Ann, 9, 121, 171
Gibson, Nanny, 132-3, 329
Gissing, George, 5
Gladstone, W. E,, 104
Glasgow, Lady, 104
Godley, Sir Arthur, 308
Goldings, The, 151-2
Gonne, Maud, 127
Goodbye for the Present by Eleanor Acland, 78, 217-18, 278-81
Googe family, 250
Corer, Geoffrey, 6, 7, 45, 551 252
Goriely, Mrs., 200, 259, 286
Göttingen, University of, 185
Gough, Nurse Elizabeth, 293-8
Governesses, 21, 31, 57, 71-72, 75, 83, 127-8, 193-6, 278, 336
Graeme, Miss Caroline Anne, 298-9
Graveney, Nanny, 123
Gray, Agnes and May, 163-8
Gregory powder, 232, 264, 279
Guthrie, Thomas Anstey, see Anstey


Hailsham, Nanny, 69, 135
Hall, Lady Diana, 112
Ham, Elizabeth, 57
Hamilton, A., 102-3
Hannah, Blanche, 131, 134, 138, 151, 181-2
Hanson, 164, 166 [sic. Typical baffling entry!]
Harrod, Nanny, 193
Harvey, Nanny, 237
Haydon, Benjamin, 39, 41
Henderson, Nanny, 124
Henry II, 50
Henry V, 62
Henry VI, 48, 50
Henry VII, 33, 61
Henry VIII, 62
Herbert, A. P., 16, 105, 106, 116, 170, 199-200, 329
Hill, The Lady Anne, 9, 80, 245-7, 252, 262-3
Hill, Nanny, 69
Hill, Nicolas and Caroline, 168
Hillingham, Lady, 71, 95, 104
Hobhouse, 164
Hoby, Lady, 50, 59
Hoby, William, [probably boy who was murdered] 50
Hodder and Stoughton, 9
Hogg, Quintin, 69, 137
Holiday Horse by Catherine Sinclair, 54-55, 74; See also Crabtree, Mrs.
Homosexuality, 309-10
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford, 242, 290-1
Hopkins, Nanny, 75
Housekeeper, see Servants, Others
Howard, Leslie, 189
Hulton, Nanny, 112
Hunter-Blair, Lady Elizabeth, 54n.
Hurrell, Nanny, 150, 171, 205, 207, 238
Hutchinson, P. W. H., 136
Hyde Park (and other parks), 96, 176, 197-91, 203, 237, 269, 274
'Hypocrisy', 104, 239, 271
Hyslop, Rhoda, 151


Ibrahim, The Grand Pasha, 154
Illness, see Medicine
India, 19, 84, 150-1, 238, 291, 206
Infants Schools, see Schools
In Many Rhythms by The Baroness Ravensdale, 151
Italuk, the, 320


James, Jeremy, 225-6
James II, 37
Jarvis family, 74
Jebb, Julian, 176
Jeunes Filles, Les, by H. de Montherlant, 102
Joan, Nanny, 157-8
John, King, 50
Johnson, Dr., 49, 56, 273
Johnstone, Nanny, 136-8, 140
Johnstone, Virginia, 136-8
Jung, C. G., 285


Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The, by Tom Wolfe, 201-4
Kagan, J., see Mussen, P. H.
Kent, Duchess of, 140
Kent, Constance, [in famous murder case] case of, and rest of family, 291-302
Kent, Samuel, 156, 173, 297-302
Keymer, Miss, 72.
Kibbutz, 6, 142, 324-9
Kindergarten, see Froebel and Schools
King-Hall, Magdalen, 10
King, Richard, g
Kinsey, 272
King-Spark family, zoo
Kinsky, Count, 29
Kipling, Rudyard, 36, 84-88, 189-91, 291
Kubrick, Stanley, 285
Kwana, the, 320


Laclos, 102
Lancaster, Duke of, 61
Lane, Dr. William Arbuthnot, 265
Laurence, Nanny, 63, 137
Law, Bonar, 19, 306, 308
Leaving, Nannies leaving charges, 6, 58, 113, 120, 152, 180, 216-29, 246, 289, 328; see also Psychology
of child upbringing and Mussen
Ledebur, Count Friedrich, 73, 258
Lees-Milne, James, 260
Left Hand, Right Hand by Osbert Sitwell, 281-2
Lepcha, the, 316, 320
Lesbian Nannies, 114, 158
Lewis, Clive, 192
Liaisons Dangereuses, Les, by Laclos, 102
Life of one's Own, A, by Gerald Brenan, 100
Lindsay, Lady Anne, 33
Lloyd George, 19, 306-7
Locke, John, 52-54, 94, 177
London Library, The, 3
Longford, Lady, 122
Longleat, 193, 207
Long Retrospect, A, by F. Anstey, 276-7
Lord, Miss Emily, see Ward, Mrs.
Lott, Miss Emmeline, 154-5
Lyttelton, Lady, 140-1
Lyttelton, Lucy, 80


MacEliot, Nanny, 7j
Mackenzie, Sir Compton, 46-47, 78-79, 81-83, 103, 200, 230-4, 249-50, 252, 257, 263, 276, 277-8, 288-90, 312
Maclean, Fitzroy, 188
Macmillan, Harold, 74
Maintenon, Madame de, 51
Maison, 51
Malik, Mrs. Theodora, 291
Man Alive, B.B.C. T.V. Programme, 83
Manners, see Discipline
March, Nanny, 152-3
Marchand, Leslie A., 163-8
Marcus, Steven, 90-91, 93, 266-8, 311
Marenholtz-Bulow, Baroness, 177
Marks, Donald, 269
Marks, Nanny, 73, 75-76, 93, 117, 124, 127, 151, 193-6, 207, 222, 237, 272
Marlborough, biography of, 32
Marlborough, Duchess of, 28
Marquesans of Polynesia, 316
Mary Poppins, 253
Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling, 181-91
Mary Queen of Scots, 35
Marx, 186
Masturbation, loot 266-72
Mathews, Douglas, g
Maud, Nanny, 137-8
Mayhew, Henry, 90, 92
McCallum, Nanny, 150, 171-2, 205-8, 224, 245
McDonnell, Pam, 307
McRae, Miss, 240
McSorley, Veronica, 157-&
Medicine, 26-27, 42-43, 60, 62-63, 109, 137, 232, 279, 297, 335
Memoirs du Comte de Grammont by Hamilton, 102-3
Memoir in the Middle of the Journey by Julian Fane, 237
Mercury Presides by Daphne Fielding, 275
Methodists, 72
Miller, Jonathan, 244
Millis, Maria, 175
Mitford, Jessica, 242, 290-I
Mitford, Nancy, 75, 96
Mitford, Unity, 242
Molesworth, Lady, 58
Moll, Albert, 268
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 68
Montherlant, Henri de, 102
Moon, Penderal, 222
Moonstone, The, by Wilkie Collins, 296
Moore, Nanny, 263
Moran, Lord, 23-25, 31
More, Sir Thomas, 44
Morning by Julian Fane, 80, 235-7
Moseley, Cynthia, 151
Mostly Nasty by Andrew Graham, 274
Mother by E. F. Benson, 131
Mother Songs by Baroness Marenholtz-Bulow, 177
Multiple mothering, 141-2; see also Kibbutz
Murderess, Nanny as, 114, 291-302
Muria, the, 320
Murngin, the, 320
Murphy, Nanny, 152-3
Murray, John, 163
Mussen, P. H., 97, 212-15, 217, 266
My Life and Times-Octave I by Sir Compton Mackenzie, 81, 230-4
My Secret Life, 90-92, 100-1, 103, 163


Nabokov, Vladimir, 125-6, 143, 147
Nana, etc., other names for, and origin of, Nanny, 68-69
Napier, Mrs. Priscilla, 187, 205, 244
Napoleon, 306
Nappies, see Swaddling and Chamber pot
Nelson, 329
Newdigate, Sir Robert de, 51-52
Nights in the Harem by Emmeline Lott, 154-5
Norah Beresford Agency, 66
Norland Nursery Training College, 72, 174, 178-9, 184-5, 220-1, 239-41
North, Lady, 59
North, Lord, 59
North, Roger, 59
Numbers of Nannies, 19-20, 66-67, 89, 173-82, 184-5
Nursery, 57-58, 176
Nursery Journal, 197
Nursery Notes, 197
Nursery Schools, see Schools
Nursery Training Colleges, 171, 173-4, 179, 185; see also Norland, Welgarth, Princess Christian
Nursery World, 10, 197, 223


Oakshott, Noël, 151, 171, 216, 222, 242, 286
Odd Women, The, by Gissing, 5
Ogilvy, Benson and Mather, 9
Onassis, see Bouvier
Other Victorians, The, by Steven Marcus, 90
Oxborough, Nanny, 223


Pack, Mrs., 38
Packer, Mrs., 140
Pakenham family, 133
Panton, Mrs., 176
Paraman, Miss, [I think a sample cruel nanny] 27, 50, 150, 280, 288, 302-9, 329


Parents and Children by Ivy Compton-Burnett, 287
Parker, Margaret, 165-6
Parks, see Hyde Park
Parladé, Jaime, 168, 207-8
Parsons, Dr., 294-5
Partridge, Mrs. Frances, 9, 144-7
Paston Letters, 44, 49
Paton, Nanny, 241, 322
Pearl Diver, 201
Peattie, Nurse, 286
People of Great Russia, The, by Geoffrey Gorer and John Rickman, 6
Peter Pan by James Barrie, 143, 269
Peter II of Yugoslavia, 249
Pewter, Nana, 174
Pitié pour les Femmes by H. de Montherlant, 102
Plato, 65, 71, 329
Platt Report, The, 221
Population, 65, 70
Portland, Duchess of, 61
Pot, see Chamber pot
Pram, 176-7, 197-9, 201
Pratt, Nurse, 76, 292-302, 329
Presbyterians, 72, 164; see also Puritan
Princess Christian Nursery Training College, 179, 185
Proust, Marcel, 83, 222
Pryce-Jones, David, 188-9, 199
Psychology of child upbringing, 22-24, 31-32, 55-56, 83, 96-98, 103, 122-3, 141-2, 177-9, 209-15, 301; see also Chamber pot, Food, Leaving, Mussen
Public Schools, see Schools
Puritan, 46-48, 34, 241-2, 249


Queen magazine, 10, 75, 117, 223
Quincey, Thomas de, 124, 288


Rackham, Arthur, 269
Radziwill, Lady, 75
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 37
Ranke, 186
Ravensdale, Baroness, 150
Reade, Brian, 290
Reindeer Chukchee, 320
Relation of the Island of England, A, 33
Retirement, Nannies in, 28-29, 60, 62, 76, 120, 146-7, 170, 207-8
Rhode, John, 301
Rhys family, 133
Ribble, Margaret, 212
Rice, Cecil Spring, 308
Richard III, 61
Richardson, Nanny, 222
Ridley, Lady Cecilia, 205
Road House, see Kent
Robbins, Nanny, 174
Robertson, Nanny, 28-29, 60, 62, 76, 120, 146-7, 170, 207-8
Rockers, 64-65
Rose, Kenneth, 17
Rothschild, Elié de, 258, 260
Rothschild, House of, 201
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 41, 53-54, 177, 311
Russell, George, 209
Russell, Miss, 222
Russia, Empress of, 75
Russia, Tzar of, 75


Sackville-West, Edward, 63, 80, 106-14, 134-5, 152, 223, 235
Saddington, Nanny, 121
Saint-With Red Hands by Yseult Bridges, 293
Sandys, Duncan, 73
Santo Domingo, Paquitto, 132
Salisbury, Lord, 307
Savrola by Winston Churchill, 18, 25
Schools, public, prep., primary, etc., 27-28, 35, 102, 136-8, 147, 177, 271, 305, 314, 728
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, 51 207
Scott, Jenny, 9
Sergeant, Nanny, 201
Second World War, 7, 56, 69, 96
Serpentine, see Hyde Park
Servants, Nanny battles with, 6, 133-4, 170, 184, 191-6
Servants, Others, 21, 34, 38, 65, 67-68, 173, 179-81, 191-2, 205
Shaftesbury, 7th Earl of, 175-6
Shakespeare, 35, 39
Shaw, Bernard, 78, 252
Shawe-Taylor, Desmond, 106
Shelley, 329
Sherwood, Mrs., 175
Shirlaw, Nanny, 192
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë, 71
Sibley, Nanny, 151
Siddel, Ursula, 174
Simms, Mrs., 195
Simpson by E. Sackville-West, 80, 106-14, 134, 147, 236,-6
Sinclair, Catherine, 61
Sinister Street by Sir Compton Mackenzie, 46-47, 78, 81, 230-4, 277-8, 288-9
Siriono, the, 264
Sitwell, Mrs., 216
Sitwell, Osbert, 281
Sly, Mrs., 140-1
Smithson, Nanny, 277
Sneyd-Kynnersley, Mr., 27-28
Snobbery, 60, 64, 69-70, 73, 170, 199-204. 314
Soames, Nanny, 74, 114, 197, 201
Socrates, 329
Some Thoughts Concerning Education by Locke, 52-53
Somerlyton, Lady, 194.
Sowing by Leonard Woolf, 124, 288
Spalding, Nanny, 277
Spock, Dr. Benjamin, 123-4
Stanley, Mrs. F., 174
Stansford, Nanny, 171-2
Stapleton, Dr., 300
Staynor, Nanny, 188
Stephens, Ellen, 74.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 67, 129-31, 282, 285
Storr, Dr. Anthony, 9, 18, 22-6, 30-32, 71, 103, 311, 319-20
Story of the Nursery, The, by Magdalen King-Hall, 10
Story-telling, See Bard
Strachey, Isobel, 282, 285
Strode, Nanny, 223
Sturford Mead, 193
Sunday Times, 258-9
Suvretta Hotel, 311 [hotel above St Moritz]
Swaddling, 7, 40, 51, 262
Swithinbank, see Briggs
Swynford, Catherine, 61
Swynford, Lord, 61
Syrup of figs, 263-4


Tacitus, 45
Talbot, Anne, 131, 134, 138, 151, 180-1, 242, 269
Tarver, Frank and Harry, 305
Tate family, 171
Taylor, Elizabeth, 200
Tennant, Sir Charles, 304
Thrale, Mrs., 273
Thynne, Alexander, see Weymouth
Thynne, Caroline, 193-6, 222, 237
Thynne, Christopher, 193-6, 237, 272
Thynne, Valentine, 193-6, 237
Times, The, 35-36, 42, 66-67, 131, 148, 180
Tisdall, Miss Bridget, 9, 158, 198-9, 243, 248-9, 263-4, 270, 312
Title of Nanny, see Nana
Toilet training, see Chamber pot
Toynbee, Philip, 290-1
Training of Nanny, 68, 170-3
Tree, Felicity, Iris, Viola, [sic] 277
Tritton, Nanny, 137-8
Truby King, 251
2001-A Space Odyssey, 285-6


Uncommercial Traveller, The, by Charles Dickens, 283
Uniform of Nannies, 68, 171, 173-4; see also Clothes
Usborne, Richard, 205


Valdenair, de, 201
Van der Post, Laurens, 258-9
Verney family, 21, 35, 39, 40, 49, 62
Vice Versa, F. Anstey, 217, 277
Victoria, Queen, 64, 140-1
Victorian Underworld, The, 90
Vienna, see Austria
Vigers, Miss, 194-6, 222
Villiers family, 133
Volpe, 305
Voltaire, 311


Wages of Nannies, 128, 170-1, 182, 205
Wagner, Rev. Arthur Douglas, 298-9
Wake, Mrs., 20
Walberton, Lady, 223
Wallis, Professor Graham, 177
Walpole, Horace, 58
War, Nannies at, 62, 132, 136-8, 187-91; see also Servants
War, World, see First, Second
Ward, Mrs, Emily, 178
Waring, Joanna, 62
Warwick, Earl of, 48, 50
Watson, Nanny, 114, 123, 134, 173, 205, 208, 216, 222
Watts, Isaac, 47
Waugh, Evelyn, 5, 207, 314
Weeton, Miss, 53-54
Welgarth Nursery Training College, 115, 172, 174, 179, 185, 240
Wellington, Duke of, 64, 140
Welsh, Brian, 99
Wentworth, Lady, 50
Wesley, John, 48-49
Wet nurse, 36-421 68, 139, 335
Weymouth, Lord Alexander, 103, 120, 151, 193-6, 222, 269, 272; see also Bath
Wheeler, Jessie, 188-9
Whicker, Chief Inspector, [basis for Moonstone detective] 296
Whiting and Child, 316
Who'll be Mother?, B.B.C. T.V. Programme, 83, 225
Wilcox, Desmond, 89
Wilde, Oscar, 242, 304
Wilhelmina, Queen, 200
Williams, Nanny, 81, 89, 115, 150, 171-2, 181-2, 192-3, 208, 237, 265
Willes, Mr. Justice, 298
Wilson, Angus, 283-4.
Wilson, Harriet, 91
Wilson, Margaret, 127-9, 143, 151, 187-8
Wilson, Simon, 151, 163
Winnicott, Dr. D. W., 100, 212, 265, 270, 317-19, 327-9
Wiser Woman?, A, Lady Christabel Aberconway, 242
Wolfe, Tom, 201
Wolley Dod, 9, 305
Woolf, Leonard, 124, 288
World of Charles Dickens, The, by Angus Wilson, 283
World War, see First, Second
Wyndham, Francis, 75, 116, 126, 223
Wynne-Tyson, Jon, 114, 134, 210, 260


Years of the Nannies, The, by Mary Ann Gibbs, g
Yonge, Charlotte M., 63-44
Young Melbourne, The, by Lord David Cecil, 94

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