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1) The warden
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The first novel of Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series, this work introduces the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and many of its clerical inhabitants. Originally published in 1855, the story centers on Mr. Septimus Harding who has been granted the comfortable wardenship of Hiram's Hospital, an almshouse from a medieval charity of the diocese. Mr. Harding, a fundamentally good man and an excellent musician, conscientiously fulfills his...
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Call the midwife trilogy volume 2
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When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped...
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The Poor Farm for Carbon County developed from the long standing Wyoming statute that stated that the sole responsibility for the relief of the indigent, the care of the sick and the aged, and the burial of paupers was to be carried out by the Board of County Commissioners. The Poor Farm at Dixon served more than 36 different poverty-stricken county residents, during the 24 years it was open with some of the residents, or inmates as they were known,...