Abandoned : : Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City /

Abandoned : : Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City / / Julie Miller.

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Two interesting items: The author's article in New York ArchivesA letter regarding foundlings in The Riverdale PressIn the nineteenth century, foundlings-children abandoned by their desperately poor, typically unmarried mothers, usually shortly after birth-were commonplace in European society....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Miller, Julie,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 “Children of Accident and Mystery”: Foundlings in History and Literature
  • 2 “New York as a Nursing Mother”: Foundlings in the Antebellum City
  • 3 “The Murder of the Innocents”: New York Discovers Its Foundlings
  • 4 “The Basket at the Door”: The Foundling Asylums Open
  • 5 “Out-Heroding Herod”: The Foundlings and the Revolutionary
  • 6 The End of the Foundling Asylums
  • 7 Conclusion: The Foundling Disappears—Almost
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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