- Look up
foundling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Foundling or The
Foundling may
refer to:
Foundling hospital, an
institution where abandoned children...
-
referred to as "throwaway" children). An
abandoned child is
referred to as a
foundling (as
opposed to a
runaway or an orphan). Baby
dumping refers to parents...
- The
History of Tom Jones, a
Foundling,
often known simply as Tom Jones, is a
comic novel by
English playwright and
novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman...
- The
Foundling Museum in
Brunswick Square, London,
tells the
story of the
Foundling Hospital, Britain's
first home for
children at risk of abandonment....
- The
Foundling Hospital (formally the
Hospital for the
Maintenance and
Education of
Exposed and
Deserted Young Children) was a children's home in London...
- of the
University of
Manchester from 2015
until 2022, and
joined the
Foundling Museum's
board of
trustees two
years later,
having previously been appointed...
- The
Foundling is a 2022
historical fiction novel by Ann Leary. It is
about a home for
women deemed "unfit to bear children", and is
primarily concerned...
- was an
English sea
captain and
philanthropist who
created the
London Foundling Hospital in Lamb's
Conduit Fields, Bloomsbury, to look
after abandoned...
- A
foundling hospital was
originally an
institution for the
reception of
foundlings, i.e.,
children who had been
abandoned or exposed, and left for the...
- The New York
Foundling,
founded in 1869 by the
Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity, is one of New York City's
oldest and
largest child welfare agencies...
