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Abandoned : foundlings in nineteenth-century New York City
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ISBN: 081476441X 0814795692 9780814795699 9780814764411 9780814757253 0814757251 9780814757260 081475726X Year: 2008 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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Two interesting items:. The author's article in New York Archives. A letter regarding foundlings in The Riverdale Press. In the nineteenth century, foundlings-children abandoned by their desperately poor, typically unmarried mothers, usually shortly after birth-were commonplace in European society. There were asylums in every major city to house abandoned babies, and writers made them the heroes of their fiction, most notably Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist . In American cities before the Civil War the situation was different, with foundlings relegated to the poorhouse instead of institutions d


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Cry of murder on Broadway : a woman's ruin and revenge in old New York
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ISBN: 1501751492 1501751506 1501751484 Year: 2021 Publisher: Ithaca : Three Hills,

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This text shows how a woman's desperate attempt at murder came to momentarily embody the anger and anxiety felt by many people at a time of economic and social upheaval and expanding expectations for equal rights.

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