The Foundling Hospital in Fiction
The Foundling Hospital is the setting for Jamila Gavin's novel Coram Boy. It also appears in three books by Jacqueline Wilson; Hetty Feather, Sapphire Battersea and Emerald Star.
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“The church is a sort of hospital for men’s souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailor’s Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)