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200 10$aAbandoned$b[electronic resource] $efoundlings in nineteenth-century New York City /$fJulie Miller
210   $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2008
215   $a1 online resource (333 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-310) and index.
327   $aChildren of accident and mystery : foundlings in history and memory -- New York as a nursing mother : foundlings in the antebellum city -- The murder of the innocents : New York discovers its foundlings -- The basket at the door : the foundling asylums open -- Out-Heroding Herod : the foundlings and the revolutionary -- The end of the foundling asylums -- Conclusion : the foundling disappears--almost.
330   $aTwo interesting items:. The author's article in New York Archives. A letter regarding foundlings in The Riverdale Press. In the nineteenth century, foundlings-children abandoned by their desperately poor, typically unmarried mothers, usually shortly after birth-were commonplace in European society. There were asylums in every major city to house abandoned babies, and writers made them the heroes of their fiction, most notably Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist . In American cities before the Civil War the situation was different, with foundlings relegated to the poorhouse instead of institutions d
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