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

Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London

Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies

Lydia Murdoch

252 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative sad medium-paced
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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...

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