This event has finished Took place on: Sunday, 27th Sep 2015
Join Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, author of Victorian Women, Unwed Mothers and the London Foundling Hospital, for a talk about the Victorian working class women who brought their infants to the Foundling Hospital for adoption.
Using detailed research into the Foundling Hospital petitions, she will provide clues to the true identities of the thousands of unwed mothers who went to the porter's gate on Guilford Street and requested a blank petition form.
The talk will follow the woman’s steps right up to receiving day, when the petitioner handed her baby over to the nurse mother in the Foundling Hospital foyer.
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This event has finished Took place on: Sunday, 27th Sep 2015
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2015-09-27 2015-09-27 Europe/London Talk: Victorian Women, Unwed Mothers A talk about the Victorian working class women who brought their infants to the Foundling Hospital for adoption. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2015/09/27/talk-victorian-women-unwed-mothers-68530 ,,, Meeting point to be confirmedWhat else is hapening in London on 27th Sep 2015