Child Abandonment in England, 1741–1834: The Case of the London Foundling Hospital
The prevailing view of abandoned children in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries comes from Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Twist was born and raised in a workhouse in nineteenth-century London. However, the workhouse was not the only, or even, the main place to which children were abandoned. T...
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MDPI AG
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Genealogy |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/3/3/35 |