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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 analy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; List of Tables; List of Archival Collections Consulted; Introduction; 1 'There Can Be No Reason for Giving to Vice Privileges Which We Deny Misfortune': Legal Constraints for Victorian Mothers; 2 Ornament of the Metropolis: Victorian Representation and Reality; 3 Circumventing Social Geography: The Unwed Mother's Search for Respectability; 4 'When First Acquainted with Father I Was. . . ': Foundling Hospital Mothers and Fathers; 5 'Is My Own Name Really Required, for on that Everything Depends'
- 6 'If You Will Kindly Take Her from Me, You Will Save My Character': Framing Respectability7 'Dear Mr Brownlow, Will You Please Tell Me. . . '; Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.