Victorian Women--Illegitemacy--Foundlings



The social stigma and lack of any financial provision for  having a child out of wedlock was impossible for many young women to bear . A Foundling Hospital such as this one was the answer to the problem in 1883.





                                                     

The Foundling Hospital , Guildford Street, London 1883




                                                                                  

 

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