Title: Folly
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.
Subjects: London (England), Household employees, Fiction, Foundling Hospital (London, England), Foundlings, History, Juvenile fiction
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century, Victoria, 1837-1901