Imagined Orphans : : Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London / / Lydia Murdoch.

With his dirty, tattered clothes and hollowed-out face, Oliver Twist is the enduring symbol of the young indigent spilling out of orphanages and haunting the streets of late-nineteenth-century London. Although poor children were often portrayed as real-life Oliver Twists-either orphaned or abandoned...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2006]
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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 24 b&w illustrations
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