Changing Sentiments and the Magdalen Hospital

Changing Sentiments and the Magdalen Hospital
Author: Mary Peace
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2016-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1315308347

Sentimentalism became popular in the eighteenth century, part of the philosophical idea that truth is founded on emotion or moral sentiment. Peace uses the London Magdalen Hospital for Penitent Prostitutes as a prism through which to explore the sentimental writing of this period.