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Voices from the Orphan Schools : the children's stories
Title:
Voices from the Orphan Schools : the children's stories / by Dianne Snowden.
Author/Creator:
Publication:
[Tasmania] : [Dianne Snowden], [2018]
Manufacture:
Huntingfield, Tasmania : NewPrint
Physical description:
298 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, plan, portraits ; 23 cm.
Accession number:
1501
Notes:
"The Orphan Schools were one institution with two parts, the Female Orphan School and the Male Orphan School. From 1828, the institution was referred to as the King's Orphan Schools, after George IV and then William IV. From 1837, when Queen Victoria came to the throne, it was known as the Queen's Orphan Schools. From 1861, it was known as the Queen's Asylum for Destitute Children."--Author's note, page 10.

Includes bibliography (pages 269-279) and index.
Summary:
'Many 'orphans of the state' were orphaned by the state. They were not orphans at all, but the children of convict mothers. Some had sailed with their mothers on the prison ships, and must have been quite disoriented by the time they entered the dormitories of the Orphan Schools ... Many children were 'orphaned' because they were born in the female factory hospitals to which their prisoner mothers had been sent after becoming pregnant."--Lucy Frost, Foreword.
ISBN:
9780646985374
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Record ID:
SD_ILS:1282006