Thomas Coram, Gent. by Gillian Wagner
Thomas Coram's long life embraced a modest Devon childhood, early manhood as a Boston shipbuilder and American colonial, supporter of women's and children's rights long before such causes became fashionable, triumphant founder ofthe children's hospital which still bears his name, and a crusty but finally reconciled old age. Gillian Wagner unravels the many sides of this remarkable private man.
Provides a valuable insight into society, culture, and the politics of charityIt will be of value to anyone interested in charity or this rich period of British history. [...] Provides a celebration of the man and his achievements and, as such, it is also a testimony to basic human energy and compassion. * H-NET BOOK REVIEW *
Offers a rich insight into the culture and mental world of Hanoverian England. Handel and Hogarth are among the luminaries who flit across its pages, personalities are given life in engaging pen-portraits, and the evocation of London is by turns charmingly vivid and unsparing in its harrowing detail. [...] It was partly through [Coram's] labours that charitable endeavour became formidably organised, endowed with formal status, and made, above all, fashionable, as an extension of politics and the arts. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *
An account which is rigorously unsentimental, a measured biography which does much to flesh out Thomas Coram. * TLS *
A much-needed biography of this early pioneer of children's charity. * SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS *
Offers a rich insight into the culture and mental world of Hanoverian England. Handel and Hogarth are among the luminaries who flit across its pages, personalities are given life in engaging pen-portraits, and the evocation of London is by turns charmingly vivid and unsparing in its harrowing detail. [...] It was partly through [Coram's] labours that charitable endeavour became formidably organised, endowed with formal status, and made, above all, fashionable, as an extension of politics and the arts. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *
An account which is rigorously unsentimental, a measured biography which does much to flesh out Thomas Coram. * TLS *
A much-needed biography of this early pioneer of children's charity. * SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS *
GILLIAN WAGNER was the first woman to chair the Thomas Coram Foundation, successor to the foundling Hospital (now Coram Family), and Barnardo's - whose founder's biography she has also written. Her other books include Children of the Empire, the story of children sent to live and work in Canada and Australia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has had a long and noteworthy involvement with the voluntary sector (in particular, chairing the influential review into residential care, 'A Positive Choice'), and was created a Dame in 1994.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843830573 |
| ISBN 10 | 1843830574 |
| Title | Thomas Coram, Gent. |
| Author | Gillian Wagner |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Year published | 2004-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 228 |
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