Introduction / 1. 'There Can Be No Reason For Giving to Vice Privileges Which We Deny Misfortune': Legal Constraints for Victorian Mothers / 2. 'Ornament of the Metropolis': Victorian Representation and Reality / 3. Circumventing Social Geography: The Unwed Mother's Search for Respectability / 4. 'When First Acquainted with Father I Was': Foundling Hospital Mothers and Fathers / 5. 'Is My Own Name Really Required, For On That Everything Depends' / 6. 'If You Will Kindly Take Her from Me, You Will Save My Character': Framing Respectability / 7. 'Dear Mr Brownlow Will You Please Tell Me' / Conclusion / Appendices / Bibliography / Index.
Sex, gender, charity and class in Victorian Britain.
Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Central Oklahoma, US. She teaches Women's History from a European and international perspective.
This is a fascinating and exhaustive study of unmarried mothers who
applied to the London Foundling Hospital in the Victorian period.
Sheetz-Nguyen has mined applications for admission in order to draw
a detailed picture of the ‘calculus of respectability’ employed by
members of the Foundling Hospital’s Board of Governors and
Committee to assess petitioners’ claims ... Sheetz-Nguyen combines
comprehensive quantitative analysis of these issues with
qualitative evidence drawn from the rich biographies of individual
petitioners assembled from the petition packets.
*Family & Community History (Vol. 16.2)*
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