Foundling Hospital, London

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Textual Features Frances Brooke
Mary Singleton, supposed author of this paper, with its trenchant comments on society and politics, is an unmarried woman on the verge of fifty,
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press.
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good-humoured as well as sharply intelligent: a contribution to the...
politics Elizabeth Cellier
The king promised EC , she said, what she had asked for in print: a Corporation of Midwives and a Cradle Hospital .
Cellier, Elizabeth. A Scheme for a Corporation of Midwives.
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Timeline

1670: The Hôtel Dieu in Paris was given letters...

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1670

The Hôtel Dieu in Paris was given letters patent to operate as a sanctuary for abandoned babies; it also operated as a centre for training nurses, run by nuns.

14 August 1737: George II signed the Charter for the proposed...

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14 August 1737

George II signed the Charter for the proposed Foundling Hospital in London.

25 March 1741: The Foundling Hospital achieved in London...

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25 March 1741

The Foundling Hospital achieved in London by Thomas Coram and others opened its doors.

1743: The first number appeared of The Foundling...

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1743

The first number appeared of The Foundling Hospital for Wit, an anthology, it claimed, of Brats of Wit and Humour—that is, poems
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discarded by authors embarrassed to own them.

2 June 1756: The London Foundling Hospital was granted...

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2 June 1756

The LondonFoundling Hospital was granted £10,000 on the condition of maintaining an open admissions policy.

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