(And a temporary link at the museum's website, from whence I have borrowed the picture below.)
Saturday, October 09, 2010
Camblets and calimanco
At the Guardian, Kathryn Hughes on an exhibition of the bits of fabric left as identifying tokens by eighteenth-century mothers who dropped their babies at the London Foundling Hospital.
(And a temporary link at the museum's website, from whence I have borrowed the picture below.)
(And a temporary link at the museum's website, from whence I have borrowed the picture below.)
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I happened upon your blog, and I'm glad I did. I love the storyline of Invisible Things. I'll look it up when it comes out.
ReplyDeleteJust saw this via Crooked House and thought I would pass on to you the same list of foundling-related books that I did to Steph....
ReplyDeleteTattycoram by Audrey Thomas (novel)
http://www.amazon.ca/Tattycoram-Audrey-Thomas/dp/0864924313
Cirrus Flux by Matthew Skeleton (kids novel)
http://www.amazon.ca/Story-Cirrus-Flux-Matthew-Skelton/dp/0141320370/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1286823227&sr=1-1
A Home for Foundlings by Marthe Jocelyn (fantastic picture book/non-fiction)
http://www.marthejocelyn.com/a_home_for_foundlings_25285.htm
And I am also really looking forward to Invisible Things since I was a big fan of the first book.