In a contribution to the online discussion group Victoria, Dr Stephen Basdeo of the American International University in Leeds cites Trevor May’s The Victorian Public School (Oxford: Shire Publications, 2011) that “The cost of keeping a boy at Eton and Harrow as calculated in July 1830 was £280 and £320 per year respectively.”
The System of Education
- "A minimum was required" — The Easy-going approach to education at Mid-Victorian Eton
- What Students Learned at Mid-Victorian Eton
- An Old Etonian on Three Approaches to Socializing Boys and Developing Morality
- The State of Religion at Victorian Eton
- The Rise of New Kinds of Class Distinctions at Victorian Eton
Living Conditions
- Bullying and Brutality at Victorian Eton
- "The Established System" — Reforms at Victorian Eton
- "The glorious part of Eton life is its happiness"
- Spooning at Victorian Eton
- Dames at Eton — "This apparently contradictory species"
- Dress at Eton
Outside class and Out of Bounds
- The Christopher
- Fighting at Nineteenth-Century Eton
- The Captain of the Boats and Undergraduate Prestige at Eton
- "The most important part of life" — In Praise of Sports at Eton
- Bully Football and the Wall Game
Eton Personages
- Alumni of Eton mentioned in the Victorian Web
- The "flaunting, worthless Etonian" and the worthy graduate
- Edward Craven Hawtrey, Headmaster at Eton
- Spankie and Other Town Characters at Victorian Eton
Eton College and the Arts
Bibliography and Other Resources
Last modified 16 February 2019