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 analy...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2012
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Online Access: | CONNECT |