Folly
By: Marthe Jocelyn.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780385738460; 9780385907316; 9780375894510; 9780375855436
Subjects: Foundling Hospital (London, England) -- Fiction; Foundlings -- Fiction; Household employees -- Fiction; London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: In a parallel narrative set in late nineteenth-century England, teenaged country girl Mary Finn relates the unhappy conclusion to her experiences as a young servant in an aristocratic London household while, years later, young James Nelligan describes how he comes to leave his beloved foster family to live and be educated at London's famous Foundling Hospital.