Coram's children : the London Foundling Hospital in the eighteenth century

Beyond the intriguing questions of why a semi-retired sea captain should want to establish a home for abandoned infants, and why it took him seventeen years to do so, the story of the Founding Hospital itself is well worth telling. For it is a story that touches upon many aspects of eighteenth-century social history: morals and manners, music and medicine, economics and education, clothing and cuisine, politics and poverty, art and architecture, the apprenticing of children and the role of women. "The impact of indigenous people upon the European discovery of Australian plants." --Provided by publisher Coram's The London Foundling Hospital in the Eighteenth Century xiii, 321 p. : 24 cm Bibliography: p. 298-310 Includes index