Title The secret life of Dorothy Soames : a memoir / Justine Cowan.

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New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

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Location	Call No.	Status
Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level	BIOGRAPHY COWAN	Check Shelf
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	BIO SOAMES	Check Shelf
Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction	306.874 COWAN	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	B SOAMES, D.	Check Shelf
Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction	B SOAMES	Check Shelf
Portland Public Library - Adult Department	BIOG SOAMES, DOROTHY	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies	B SOAMES DOROTHY C	Check Shelf
Wethersfield Public Library - Biographies	BIOG COWAN, JUSTINE	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents	Dorothy Soames -- Ghosts -- Secrets -- Scrutiny -- Bastards -- Running -- Admission day -- Hope -- Fear -- Longing -- Healing -- War and isolation -- Sustenance -- Escape -- Mothers -- Belonging -- Reunions and reckonings -- Love.
Summary	Documents the author's investigation into her late mother's tragic experiences as an illegitimate orphan who endured an early life of discrimination, physical abuse and harsh labor serving England's ruling class at London's infamous Foundling Hospital.
	Cowan had always been told that her mother came from royal blood. After her mother's death, she opened an envelope filled with secrets of her mother's past-- secrets that led into the dark corridors of the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children. Dorothy Soames' experiences there-- years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of a sadistic headmistress-- created a resilient child who dreamed of escape. Here Cowan makes a startling discovery that her family's fate had been sealed centuries before. -- adapted from jacket
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-304).
Subject	Cowan, Justine -- Family.
	Mothers and daughters -- Biography.
	Soames, Dorothy, 1932-2012 -- Childhood and youth.
	Orphans -- England -- Biography.
	Abused children -- England -- Biography.
	Girls -- Institutional care -- England.
	Foundling Hospital (London, England) -- History.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
	FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dysfunctional Families.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
	Foundling Hospital (London, England) (OCoLC)fst00512477
	Abused children. (OCoLC)fst00794809
	Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
	Girls -- Institutional care. (OCoLC)fst00942892
	Mothers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst01026997
	Orphans. (OCoLC)fst01048433
	England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
Genre/Form	Biography.
	Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Autobiographies.
	Biographies.
ISBN	9780062991010 (hardcover)
	0062991019 (hardcover)

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