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Author Murdoch, Lydia, 1970-

Title Imagined orphans : poor families, child welfare, and contested citizenship in London / Lydia Murdoch.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2006]
©2006

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 Moore Stacks  HV752.L7 M87 2006    Available  ---
Description xii, 252 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Series The Rutgers series in childhood studies
Rutgers series in childhood studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.
Contents "A little waif of London, rescued from the streets": melodrama and popular representations of poor children -- From barrack schools to family cottages: creating domestic space and civic identity for poor children -- The parents of "nobody's children": family backgrounds and the causes of poverty -- "That most delicate of all questions in an Englishman's mind": the rights of parents and their continued contact with institutionalized children -- Training "Street Arabs" into British citizens: making artisans and members of empire -- "Their charge and ours": changing notions of child welfare and citizenship.
Subject Child welfare -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Child welfare.
England -- London.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Child welfare -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Poor children -- Institutional care -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Poor children -- Institutional care -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.
Poor families -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Poor families.
Poor families -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.
Dr Barnardo's (Organization) -- History.
Dr Barnardo's (Organization)
ISBN 0813537223 hardcover alkaline paper
9780813537221 hardcover alkaline paper