The Crofton Boys

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The Crofton Boys is a book by Harriet Martineau. The contents list chapters titled All the Proctors but Phil, Why Mr. Tooke Came, Crofton Play and Holt and His Dignity. A chapter headed All the Proctors but Phil introduces Mr. Proctor, the chemist and druggist, who kept his shop, and lived in the Strand, London.

Two boys, Hugh and little Harry, play at school-boys in the back yard, with Hugh acting a naughty boy who could not say his Latin lesson to the usher. A speaker says that a school is to boys what the world is when they become men, and that they must manage their own affairs among themselves. A letter to Hugh says that, if all our hearts were known, it would be found that we have every one been saved from doing wrong by what we call accident.

About the author

Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau built a career as an English writer, journalist, translator, and social observer who carried political economy and social analysis to readers across nineteenth-century Britain. Born in Norwich in 1802, she established an independent livelihood through periodical writing before gaining wide attention with Illustrations of Political Economy.