Stories
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Abandoning daydreams of a life without diabetes
After years of longing for a cure for her type 1 diabetes, Daisy Watson Shaw, partly due to medical advances in managing the condition, has reached a state of acceptance. Her wishes now are for greater understanding.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
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Spiritual joy
Spiritual joy can be a source of strength. Like the optimistic Pollyanna, there’s a lot to be said for finding reasons to rejoice, even in adversity.
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Born different
For Chris North, being born intersex in the 1940s meant his many childhood hospital visits, tests and operations were not explained or discussed. As he reveals, doctors encouraged strict secrecy.
Catalogue
- Books
Abandoned children in eighteenth-century Paris / Claude Delasselle.
Delasselle, Claude.Date: 1978- Books
Abandoned children / edited by Catherine Panter-Brick and Malcolm Smith.
Date: 2000- Books
Abandoned children : foundlings and child welfare in nineteenth-century France / Rachel Ginnis Fuchs.
Fuchs, Rachel G., 1939-2016.Date: [1984], ©1984- Books
The dark lady / Akala.
Akala, 1983-Date: 2021- Books
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Fifty pounds reward! Whereas, Ethelinda Margaretta Potts, the wife of Cuthbert Potts, of Pall-Mall, ... hath absented herself from her said husband, and cruelly abandoned her three infant children: ...
Potts, Cuthbert.Date: 1796]