Author: PUGH, GILLIAN.
Title: London's Forgotten Children. Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital.
Description: Stroud: Tempus, 2007. 9780752442440. 1st edition. "In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight of children dying on the dung heaps of London. These foundlings and orphans were products of a poverty-striken society where the attitude towards babies born outside of wedlock meant a life of rejection and inferiority. After 17 years of campaigning, Coram managed to persuade sufficient 'persons of quality and distinction' to support his petition to the King to grant a Royal Charter for the building of the Foundling Hospital in a green field site in Bloomsbury.." 20.5cms x 13cms. Pp.192, 23 colour + 38 black & white illustrations. Black cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Keywords: Pugh London Forgotten Children Thomas Coram Foundling Hospital History Charity Hogarth Handel Brownlow Dickens Childhood Experience 48347 History: : British


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