Main Coram's Children: The London Foundling Hospital in the Eighteenth Century

Coram's Children: The London Foundling Hospital in the Eighteenth Century

Name: Coram's Children: The London Foundling Hospital in the Eighteenth Century
Rating: 5.0 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780300024654

Ruth K. McClure

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Beyond the intriguing questions of why a semi-retired sea captain should want to establish a home for abandoned infants, and why it took him seventeen years to do so, the story of the Founding Hospital itself is well worth telling. For it is a story that touches upon many aspects of eighteenth-century social history: morals and manners, music and medicine, economics and education, clothing and cuisine, politics and poverty, art and architecture, the apprenticing of children and the role of women.

Request Code : ZLIBIO4418400

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Year:

1981

Language:

English

Pages:

321

ISBN 10:

0300024657

ISBN 13:

9780300024654