Unforgiven: Drunken Mothers

By: Simeon, Everistus

The most popular Religious Tract Society[1] writer of children's fiction in the High Victorian period, the prolific Hesba Stretton, [2] often wrote of the desperate wanderings of outcasts in England's industrial cities of Manchester, Liverpool, and-most often-London. Stretton is known primarily as the advocate of poor urban children in both her life and her art. She was the friend of Dickens, and-in company with the great philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts and others-she campaigned in support of the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.[3] In her urgent concern for England's children, whom she viewed as its most vulnerable citizens, Stretton constructed a corollary narrative to her stories of victimized children that focused upon negligent, often drunken and morally corrupt mothers. It is this cultural narrative of the oppressive drunken mother that I wish to examine.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09QF44XZF
• ISBN13: 9798403343169
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"