Robert Emerson

Learning the Hard Way Robert Emerson

Roland Richardson is given the bare essentials of a gentleman's education in pre-War England. Everyone knew his or her place in the England of the Thirties; wives obeyed their husbands and children obeyed their parents - or else! The wealthy and privileged sent their offspring to boarding schools where the curriculum had changed little since Victorian times. Discipline was strict and the administration of corporal punishment a daily occurrence. But it was not only the pupils who misbehaved!