Title: The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow
Description: A comic story set in mock-Victorian times. Solomon Snow discovers, to his amazement, that he is a foundling. A silver spoon was left with him as a baby, but Pa has pawned it. Solomon leaves home in high dudgeon to seek his spoon and his real parents. He joins up with Prudence Pridy, a very bossy girl, and a very irritating child called the Infant Prodigy, who can wind any adult round her little finger. Together they reach Town and promptly meet a glorious cast of assorted larger-than-life characters including a villainous pawnbroker, kidnappers, a child farmer, an awful orphanage and a cheery chimney-sweep's boy. Solly does find his spoon eventually - but the ending takes everyone by surprise.
Subjects: Juvenile Fiction, Fiction, Boy orphans, Orphans, Individuality, Spoons, Identification, Birthparents, Quests, Foundlings, Child circus performers, Friendship, Determination in children, Juvenile fiction, Abandoned children, Identity (Psychology), Determination (Personal quality), Identity, Ten-year-old boys, Social conditions, Children's fiction, Orphans, fiction, Great britain, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Identity, fiction