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The Childhood of the Poor: Welfare in Eighteenth-Century London 2012th Edition
Author(s): A. Levene (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 5 April 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 262 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230354807
- ISBN-13: 9780230354807
Book Description
Was there a notion of childhood for the labouring classes, and was it distinctive from that of the elite? Examining pauper childhood, family life and societal reform, Levene asks whether new models of childhood in the eighteenth century affected the treatment of the young poor, and reveals how they and their families were helped through hard times.
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About the Author
ALYSA LEVENE is Reader in History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has published widely on the history of child welfare, including child abandonment, mortality, illegitimacy and pauper apprenticeship. Her previous monograph, Childcare, Health and Mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1800: ‘Left to the Mercy of the World’ was published in 2007.
