Exhibition
The Fallen Woman
25 Sep 2015 – 03 Jan 2016
Foundling Museum
London, United Kingdom
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The Pinch of Poverty, the Foundling Museum
Talk
Talk: Victorian Women, Unwed Mothers
27 Sep 2015
Regular hours
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free with Museum admission.
Address
- 40 Brunswick Square
- London
- WC1N 1AZ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 59, 68, 91, 168, 188
- Russell Square, King's Cross St Pancras
- Euston, St Pancras International and King's Cross
Event map
Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, talks on the Victorian working class women who brought their infants to the Foundling Hospital for adoption.
About
Join Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, author of Victorian Women, Unwed Mothers and the London Foundling Hospital, for a talk about the Victorian working class women who brought their infants to the Foundling Hospital for adoption. Using detailed research into the Foundling Hospital petitions, she will provide clues to the true identities of the thousands of unwed mothers who went to the porter's gate on Guilford Street and requested a blank petition form. The talk will follow the woman’s steps right up to receiving day, when the petitioner handed her baby over to the nurse mother in the Foundling Hospital foyer.
