Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City

by Julie Miller

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081475726X
• ISBN13: 9780814757260
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"