Cellier, Elizabeth. A Scheme for a Corporation of Midwives. 1687.
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Foundling Hospital, London
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Elizabeth Cellier | The king
promised EC
, she said, what she had asked for in print: a Corporation of Midwives and a Cradle Hospital
. |
| 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, qtd. in McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983. 14 |
Timeline
1670: The Hôtel Dieu in Paris was given letters...
Building item
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.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
10: 746-7
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
19: 914-5
14 August 1737: George II signed the Charter for the proposed...
Building item
14 August 1737
George II
signed the Charter for the proposed Foundling Hospital
in London.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
329-30
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Coram
25 March 1741: The Foundling Hospital achieved in London...
Building item
25 March 1741
The Foundling Hospital
achieved in London by Thomas Coram
and others opened its doors.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
335-7
1743: The first number appeared of The Foundling...
Writing climate item
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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2 June 1756: The London Foundling Hospital was granted...
Building item
2 June 1756
The LondonFoundling Hospital
was granted £10,000 on the condition of maintaining an open admissions policy.
Innes, Joanna. “The Domestic Face of the Military-Fiscal State: Government and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain”. An Imperial State at War, edited by Lawrence Stone, Routledge, 1994, pp. 96-127.
106
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1756) 26: 305
Innes gives the figure for the grant as thirty thousand pounds, but the Gentleman's Magazine...
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