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Orphans of empire : the fate of London's foundlings
著者:
Berry, Helen, 1969-
ISBN:
9780198758488
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出版日期:
2019
物理描述:
384 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
摘要:
18th-century London was teeming with humanity, and poverty was never far from politeness. Legend has it that, on his daily commute through this thronging metropolis, Captain Thomas Coram witnessed one of the city's most shocking sights - the widespread abandonment of infant corpses by the roadside. He could have just passed by. Instead, he devised a plan to create a charity that would care for these infants; one that was to have enormous consequences for children born into poverty in Britain over the next 200 years. This book tells the story of what happened to the thousands of children who were raised at the London Foundling Hospital, Coram's brainchild, which opened in 1741 and grew to become the most famous charity in Georgian England.
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