Running to Freedom: The Flight of the Fathers of Illegitimate Children to the Colonies of the British Empire, 1875-1901

Through the close study of private correspondence extracts and first-hand testimonies found in the London Foundling Hospital archives, this paper will analyse the phenomenon of the flight towards the colonies of the British Empire in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. In the archives of thi...

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Main Author: Florence Pellegry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2016-05-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/2497