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Childcare, health and mortality in the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1800
This book is a thorough and appealing investigation into the health and welfare of abandoned babies and children in eighteenth-century England. It uses a variety of approaches to examine health, mortality and welfare practices, including family fostering, wet-nursing, disease and the impact of abandonment on survivorship.
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A home for foundlings
The story of Thomas Coram, of parentless children raised to be of service to England and of the well documented evidence of their lives.
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Victorian Women, Unwed Mothers and the London Foundling Hospital
This volume seeks to address the questions of poverty, charity, and public welfare, taking the nineteenth-century London Foundling Hospital as its focus. It delineates the social rules that constructed the gendered world of the Victorian age, and uses ‘respectability’ as a factor for analysis: the women who successfully petitioned the Foundling Hospital for admission of their infants were not East End prostitutes, but rather unmarried women, often domestic servants, determined to maintain social respectability. The administrators of the Foundling Hospital reviewed over two hundred petitions annually; deliberated on about one hundred cases; and accepted not more than 25 per cent of all cases. Using primary material from the Foundling Hospital’s extensive archives, this study moves methodically from the broad social and geographical context of London and the Foundling Hospital itself, to the micro-historical case data of individual mothers and infants.
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The 'Poe cases': Preventing statelessness for foundlings in the Philippines
Philippine Senator, Grace Poe, is a foundling. Due to her status as a foundling, the question of whether Senator Poe was a natural-born citizen was raised in the Supreme Court of the Philippines ('the Supreme Court'), as the Philippine 'Constitution' provides that only natural-born citizens may run for national government offices. Natural-born citizens are those who are citizens of the Republic of the Philippines ('the Philippines') from birth without having to perform any act to acquire or perfect their Philippine citizenship. Hence, the status of Senator Poe's citizenship was crucial in determining whether she could run for national office.
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Silas Marner
A man becomes a recluse when he's accused of a crime he did not commit Silas Marner is a skilled weaver working long hours in London for a Calvinist sect that does not appreciate him.When the congregation's funds are stolen, Silas is framed for the theft and excommunicated.
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Wild boar in the cane field : a novel
\"One day, a baby girl, Tara, is found, abandoned and covered in flies. She is raised by two mothers in a community rife with rituals and superstition. As she grows, Tara pursues acceptance at all costs. Saffiya, her adoptive mother, and Bhaggan, Saffiya's maidservant, are victims of the men in their community, and the two women, in turn, struggle and live short but complicated lives. The only way for the villagers to find solace is through the rituals of ancient belief systems. Tara lives in a village that could be any village in South Asia, and she dies, like many young women in the area, during childbirth. Her short life is dedicated to her efforts to find happiness, despite the fact that she has no hope of going to school or making any life choices in the feudal, patriarchal world in which she finds herself. Poignant and compelling, Wild Boar in the Cane Field depicts the tragedy that often characterizes the lives of those who live in South Asia--and demonstrates the heroism we are all capable of even in the face of traumatic realities.\"--Publisher.
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