Worse than Orphans
Mary Hannity: Waifs and Strays, 3 April 2025
A Home from Home? Children and Social Care in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1870-1920
by Claudia Soares.
Oxford, 231 pp., £83, February 2023,978 0 19 289747 3 Show More
by Claudia Soares.
Oxford, 231 pp., £83, February 2023,
“... for more than twenty thousand children over the next four decades. The society is the subject of Claudia Soares’s A Home from Home? It aimed to provide ‘a permanent environment of brightness, warmth and “homeliness”’ for children, in contrast to the ‘measured ounces of food, the sameness of the cropped heads, the routine day after day’ at ... ”
