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A young woman named Mary Engle accepts a position as a secretary at the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Child Bearing Age. While working there she encounters Lillian Faust, a young woman she recognizes from the orphanage she grew up in. Engle knows from her past history with Faust that she is not feebleminded, and finds that many of the other women at the institution aren't ...
The Foundling is set in the autumn of 1818. [3] Heyer's biographer, Jennifer Kloester, compares the novel with Jane Austen's Emma as having certain themes in common. [2] She also quotes, as a stylistic parallel with Austen, the Duke's observation in the final chapter that Belinda "will always be silly, but [Jasper] appears to have considerable constancy, and we must hope that he will always be ...
In 1730 Thomas Coram approached aristocratic women with a petition to support the establishment of a Foundling Hospital, which he would present to King George II. [1] [2]The women who signed were of aristocratic backgrounds, and Coram kept a list in his pocket memorandum book, captioned 'An Exact Account when each Lady of Charity Signed their Declaration'. [2]
“The Foundling” arrives in this century’s '20s, a time not so far removed as we’d like to think from the heyday of eugenics or its antiscientific methods.
Harriet Abbott Coolidge (née Lincoln; 1849 - May 17/18, 1902) was an American philanthropist, author and reformer. [1] [2] She did much in the way of instructing young mothers in the care and clothing of infants, and furthered the cause to improve the condition of infants in foundling hospitals. [3]
The Foundling (Heyer novel), a 1948 novel by Georgette Heyer; The Foundling (Leary novel), a 2022 novel by Ann Leary; The Foundling, a 1748 play by Edward Moore; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, a 1749 novel by Henry Fielding; Monster Blood Tattoo: Foundling, the first book of the Monster Blood Tattoo fantasy trilogy by D. M. Cornish
The Foundling is a 1748 comedy by the British writer Edward Moore. [1]The original Drury Lane cast included David Garrick as Young Belmont, Spranger Barry as Sir Charles Raymond, Charles Macklin as Faddle, William Havard as Colonel Raymond, Richard Yates as Sir Roger Belmont, Peg Woffington as Rosetta and Susannah Cibber as Fidelia.
John Hewlett. John Hewlett (1762–13 April 1844) was a prominent biblical scholar in nineteenth-century England.. Hewlett was born in Chetnole, Dorset to Timothy Hewlett. In his early 20s he established a school in Shacklewell, Hackney.