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,
“... the charity, though bishop governors were notably few, and women were absent. The Hospital was, in Ruth McClure’s words, the pioneer case of ‘incorporated associative benevolence’, with the aim, as Joseph Massie put it, that ‘Charity, Humanity, Patriotism and Economy be made to go hand in hand’. Popean, if not quite Mandevillian, in their ... ”
