A Home for Foundlings - Lord Museum Book Author:Marthe Jocelyn Nominated for the 2005 Norma Fleck Award — Thousands of mothers carried their babies to the gates of the Foundling Hospital desperate to save them from the cruel streets of eighteenth-century London. Each baby was left with a personal ?token? ? identification if a repentant mother ever returned to reclaim her child. — Captain Thomas Coram, ... more »himself childless, was inspired by the sight of babies abandoned on dung heaps to petition the king for support in building a home for England?s poorest children. Coram?s vision saved countless children?s lives.
A Home for Foundlings describes the hospital Captain Coram founded, the luminaries involved ? including Handel, Hogarth, and Dickens ? and the daily lives of the foundlings themselves.
Full of archival photos and materials, and published in cooperation with the newly established Foundling Museum in London and Lord Cultural Resources, A Home for Foundlings is a fascinating, heartbreaking, and timely book. Author Marthe Jocelyn?s text has particular resonance: her grandfather, Arthur Jocelyn, was raised in the Foundling Hospital.« less