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Children and adults

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  • An opinionated child ignores his parents; representing the faculty of obstinacy in phrenology. Steel engraving, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • A child with a swollen mouth being led by a woman to visit an apothecary, who is seated in his laboratory. Drawing by William Heath Robinson.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    William Ellery Channing on the duty of children to parents / T.E.C., Jr.

    Cone, Thomas E., 1915- | Date: 1979
    • Books

    Savage girls and wild boys : a history of feral children / Michael Newton.

    Newton, Michael (Michael Stuart), 1965- | Date: 2002
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    An opinionated child ignores his parents; representing the faculty of obstinacy in phrenology. Steel engraving, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

    Bruyères, Hippolyte. | Date: [1847] | Reference: 27620i
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    The rise and fall of childhood / C. John Sommerville.

    Sommerville, C. John (Charles John), 1938- | Date: [1982], ©1982
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    A child with a swollen mouth being led by a woman to visit an apothecary, who is seated in his laboratory. Drawing by William Heath Robinson.

    Robinson, W. Heath (William Heath), 1872-1944. | Reference: 39058i
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