Abstract
Gordon Stables, the flamboyant writer on health matters for the Boy’s Own Paper, remarked that Edwardian boys faced dangers that were ‘very, very, real’ (558). He advised that:
The very first stepping-stones to good health and success are the giving up of bad habits, whether school vices or smoking and the declaration made to yourself and before Heaven in your own chambers that you will not read sensational or impure literature again. You thus bid fair to purify your minds and bodies also, and remove the most dangerous obstacles to your advancement in life. (558, emphasis added)
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Olsen, S. (2009). Towards the Modern Man: Edwardian Boyhood in the Juvenile Periodical Press. In: Gavin, A.E., Humphries, A.F. (eds) Childhood in Edwardian Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230595132_10
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