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We note a magazine titled The Parents Review. It was a British magazine published monthly in London. We believe it was founded in 1889. We are not sure about the publishing run, but it seems to have been published to about 1910. The Parents Review was edited by Charlotte M. Mason, a famous 19th-century educator, who developed an educational philosophy designed to nurture the individuality of children. As the title indicates, it had articles useful to parents. As is generally the case for parent-orinented the articles were centered primarily on information for mothers. This included articles on clothing and fashion.
We believe it was founded in 1889. The magazine had a publishing life of about
twenty years, beginning in 1890 and running to about 1910.
The Parents Review was a British magazine published monthly in London. It billed itself as "A monthly magazine on home-training and culture".
The Parents Review was edited by Charlotte M. Mason, a famous 19th-
century educator, who developed an educational philosophy designed to nurture
the individuality of children. The editor of the magazine, Charlotte Mason, wrote several books on the education and rearing of children in addition to editing The Parents' Review, a magazine that was sent out to parents and teachers of Charlotte Mason's schools and correspondence-type homeschools. Charlotte Mason was very much involved in various home-schooling projects and was prominent in the movement to make childrens' education more progressive, less rigidly disciplinarian, and freer to nurture a child's individual tastes and interests. She promoted the teaching of literature, music, and art to growing boys and girls and stressed the interdependence of the child's mental growth with his emotional
needs and development.
The magazine ws published by the Parent's National Education Union. I'm not sure if that is an important group or simply a vehicle Mason used to promote her educational ideas.
As the title indicates, it had articles useful to parents for home training that contained advice on many subjects relevant to the rearing of children.
The magazine featured articles on all sorts of cultural subjects that would be of interest to children and their teachers. As is generally the case for parent-orinented the articles were centered primarily on information for mothers. This included articles on clothing and fashion. A readers reports on an interesting article on children's clothing written by Helen M. Wilson, M.B. "The Food and Clothing of Children Beyond Infancy" was published in volume 4, pp. 913-919. The year was 1893-94. The first half of the article deals with nutrition and the feeding of children. The emphasis is on children's clothing and health.
Much of the article is quite general and deals with such subjects as the necessity of keeping children warm enough and wearing clothing that is not too tight. There is more emphasis on girls than on boys because of girls' greater concern with fashion, but the article contains some interesting historical details that apply to both genders and that reveal certain prevailing attitudes about the way to dress boys and girls in the final decade of the 19th century. The author of this article, however, uses British terminology for clothing items suspenders=supporters, braces=suspenders, bodice=underwaist, knickerbockers=bloomers). Of course the current destinctions between American and British English were not the same as they were in the 1890s.
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