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Coram Boy. Jamila Gavin
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isbn 9781780314518
Автор произведения Jamila Gavin
Жанр Учебная литература
Издательство HarperCollins
Have you ever wondered why Jamila Gavin
wrote Coram Boy? Or where you can go to find out more about the Coram Foundation?
This Egmont Extras edition includes an exclusive,
never seen before interview with Jamila answering
these questions and more
– and you can also hear Jamila reading
an extract from the book.
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An Interview with Jamila Gavin
Contents
31. The river flows to the sea
An Interview with Jamila Gavin
A Reading from Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin
It was a passing remark which triggered the story – as is so often the way with writers. A friend murmured something about ‘the Coram man’ in the eighteenth century: someone who collected abandoned children, ostensibly to deliver them to the newly founded Coram Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Children. But the Hospital had never employed such a man, and any so-called Coram man was acting on his own, and most likely in his own interests without any regard for either the abandoned children or the miserable women who had entrusted their pathetic offspring into his safe-keeping. Indeed, the highways and by-ways of England were littered with the bones of little children. Children in the eighteenth century were routinely brutalised, whether it was at home or at Eton College, whether it was in the parish orphanages, which were no more than dying houses, or in the cathedral choir schools. It was often entirely a matter of luck if a child was kindly and lovingly reared, and it was to redress