Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City
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Two interesting items:
The author's article in New York Archives
A letter regarding foundlings in The Riverdale Press
In the nineteenth century, foundlings--children abandoned by their desperately poor, typically unmarried mothers, usually shortly after birth--were commonplace in European society. There were asylums in every major city to house abandoned babies, and writers made them the heroes of their fiction, most notably Charles Dickens's...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:081475726X
ISBN13:9780814757260
Release Date:April 2008
Publisher:New York University Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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