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Abandoned [[electronic resource] ] : foundlings in nineteenth-century New York City / / Julie Miller



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Autore: Miller Julie <1959-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Abandoned [[electronic resource] ] : foundlings in nineteenth-century New York City / / Julie Miller Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 p.)
Disciplina: 362.76
Soggetto topico: Abandoned children - New York (State) - New York - History - 19th century
Soggetto non controllato: abandoned
asylums
children
foundlings
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people
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Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-310) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Children 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.
Sommario/riassunto: Two 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
Titolo autorizzato: Abandoned  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-6441-X
0-8147-9569-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782013303321
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