The Rich Pass By

Pamela Pope
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Sarah Byrne's story starts with the illegitimate birth of her daughter Angel and her loveless marriage to Nahum Morey, clergyman and governor of the Thomas Coram Hospital for Foundlings. Situated in the fields near Clerkenwell in the City of London, the hospital saved destitute or abandoned babies from the workhouse. Sarah was determined to remain close to the daughter she had lost and when this led her to a role as one of the Foundling Hospital's residential staff, the daily fabric of institutional life there was laid bare...
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