For readers who enjoyed the historical aspect of Coram Boy, Ruth K. McClure's nonfiction work Coram's Children: The London Foundling Hospital in the Eighteenth Century (1981) discusses the origins of the institution and its effect on English treatment of orphans. Other works depicting the despair of English orphans and slums include the classic novel Oliver Twist (1838) by Charles Dickens. Here Dickens tells the story of a young orphan boy who turns to a life of crime before being rescued by a generous benefactor. Readers interested.....
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