England’s Ideology
Roy Porter, 5 August 1982
Coram’s Children: The London Foundling Hospital in the 18th Century
by Ruth McClure.
Yale, 321 pp., £15, September 1981,0 300 02465 7 Show More
by Ruth McClure.
Yale, 321 pp., £15, September 1981,
Children of the Empire
by Gillian Wagner.
Weidenfeld, 284 pp., £10.95, March 1982,0 297 78047 6 Show More
by Gillian Wagner.
Weidenfeld, 284 pp., £10.95, March 1982,
“... Farms’). The story of this children’s crusade for God and Empire is discreetly told by Gillian Wagner, who can avoid the pious excesses of histories of philanthropy because her do-gooders really did good: case-histories show how many of these children of the Empire throve beyond the dreams of their siblings back home. But her book prompts the ... ”
