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Public poor relief in North Carolina
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Roy M. Brown |
184 p., [12] leaves of plates : 22 cm |
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Workhouse child
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Maggie Hope |
All she wants is a family of her own ... Lottie is just three years old when her Mammy dies and she is sent to the workhouse. A childhood spent in poverty, skivvying for other people, leaves her with… |
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Oliver Twist finds a home
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Nigel Gray,Andrew McLean |
A simple retelling of the adventures of the mid-nineteenth century English boy who, desperate to escape the squalid and cruel surroundings of the workhouse where he lives, runs away to London. |
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A grim almanac of the workhouse
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Peter Higginbotham |
"For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition, misery, mistreatment and murder ran like wildfire … |
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