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Authors M Matthew Henson ➝ Conversations with Myself ➝ Always in the convent shadow ➝ Memories of a Catholic Girlhood ➝ Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir ➝ Seven Storey Mountain ➝ Ways of the Wicked Witch ➝ Putting Down Roots ➝ Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution ➝ Sunday's Child? A Memoir by Leslie Baruch Brent ➝ The Last Foundling: A little boy left behind, The mother who wanted him back ➝ Keeping in step ➝ Among the Porcupines ➝ Borderline: A Memoir ➝ It Is No Secret ➝ Against the Odds. Care Leavers at University ➝ Recipes for Survival: Stories of hope and healing by survivors of the state 'care' system in Australia ➝ God was always there ➝ My Place ➝ Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard ➝ Long Walk to Freedom ➝ No Way Home: The terrifying story of life in a children's home and a little girl's struggle to survive ➝ An Australian Son ➝ Pulling the Chariot of the Sun ➝ Red Tape Rape. The Story of Ki Meekins ➝ Two Mothers ➝ Up from the Lowest Rung ➝ The True “Drama of the Gifted Child”: The Phantom Alice Miller — The Real Person ➝ Our Voice of Fire ➝ Back to Top

Autobiography/Memoir Putting Down Roots Deidre Michell 2010 In this book, Women Journeying With Spirit, every woman’s journey is a reflection of her unique spirit, and yet each woman has identified the very strong threads that bind together spirituality with everyday life. In no story is spirituality something external or additional to the mundane, to reality, and so rather than this being a volume of mystic visions or transfiguring illuminations, it conveys a search for meaning amid the often considerable challenges of personal experiences. .In her chapter, "Putting Down Roots" Deidre Michell reflects on the impact of being in foster care for most of her childhood. External Website

Writers Anthony Burgess 1917-1993 John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (1917 – 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. John’s mother, Elizabeth Burgess, was a singer and dancer known on music hall posters as the Beautiful Belle Burgess. His father, Joseph Wilson, was a bookkeeper by day and a piano player by night. John’s mother and older sister, Muriel, died in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. From then, John was in the care of his mother’s sister, Ann Bromley, until his father remarried in 1922. John Burgess Wilson graduated from the Victoria University of Manchester in 1940 with a degree in English Literature. For 6 years he served in the Army after which he taught in various colleges and was English master at Banbury Grammar School in 1950. While he was working as an education officer in Malaya and Borneo his first published novel, Time for a Tiger, appeared under the name of Anthony Burgess. He wrote 2 more novels with a Malayan setting before he was discharged from the British Colonial Services because of ill health. Back in England from 1959, Burgess became a prolific writer. By the time Clockwork Orange appeared, he had published another 6 novels. He also worked as a literary journalist and contributed to television and radio programs. Anthony Burgess was also a well-known composer of more than 200 pieces of music, including a libretti for the Glasgow production of Scottish Opera’s Oberon in 1985. External Website

Authors B Martin Buber ➝ Leigh Bardugo ➝ Anthony Burgess ➝ Floella Benjamin (writer) ➝ Annie Besant ➝ J.M. Barrie ➝ Sally Bayley ➝ Rita Mae Brown ➝ Shannon Burns ➝ Leslie Baruch Brent ➝ Augusten Burroughs ➝ Andi Brierley ➝ Elizabeth Bowen ➝ Louise Beech ➝ Nina Bawden ➝ Back to Top

Children's Fiction Paddington Michael. Bond 1958 Paddington Bear, created by British author Michael Bond, is a beloved character in children's literature, first appearing in A Bear Called Paddington on October 13, 1958. Paddington, a polite, marmalade-loving, anthropomorphic bear from "darkest Peru," is discovered by the Brown family at London’s Paddington station and adopted after they struggle to pronounce his original bear name. Known for his old hat, duffel coat, and battered suitcase, Paddington is well-meaning yet often gets into innocent mischief. Bond was inspired to create Paddington after spotting a lonely teddy bear in a shop, and he drew parallels to the experiences of wartime refugees carrying luggage labels, leading to Paddington’s iconic tag, "Please look after this bear." Bond wrote the first book within ten days and named Paddington after the station, close to his home. The character has since featured in 29 books illustrated by various artists, with the final book, Paddington at St. Paul's, published posthumously in 2018. External Website

Academic Books & Book Chapters Dickens The Orphan Condition Baruch Hochman; Ilja Wachs 1999 This study interprets Dickens's work through close analysis of its involvement with the imaginative and emotional implications of orphanhood and of the horror of abandonment that is inscribed in it. It shows how Dickens's ultimate loyalty is to the abandoned child. Indeed, it tracks the ways in which the development of his work is toward an ever more fierce critique of the world from within the perspective of that child. It demonstrates how Dickens's fiction comes to question all the forms that give shape to the self - status, work, citizenship, marriage, parenthood, property - and how it does so from the subjective vantage point of what may be termed the orphan imagination. Its thesis is that the shape of Dickens's novels is also determined by this perspective. External Website

Authors E Life After Care: From Lost Cause to MBE ➝ Born To Survive: You Can't Break A Broken heart ➝ Love Child ➝ The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano ( ➝ Back to Top

Autobiography/Memoir The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano ( Olaudah Equiano 1789 Olaudah Equiano (1745 – 31 March 1797), known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa, he was a writer and abolitionist from, according to his memoir, the Eboe (Igbo) region of the Kingdom of Benin (today southern Nigeria). Enslaved as a child in Africa, he was taken to the Caribbean and sold as a slave to a Royal Navy officer. He was sold twice more but purchased his freedom in 1766. As a freedman in London, Equiano supported the British abolitionist movement. He was part of the Sons of Africa, an abolitionist group composed of Africans living in Britain, and he was active among leaders of the anti-slave trade movement in the 1780s. He published his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789), which depicted the horrors of slavery. It went through nine editions in his lifetime and helped gain passage of the British Slave Trade Act 1807, which abolished the slave trade. Equiano married an English woman, Susannah Cullen, in 1792 and they had two daughters. He died in 1797 in Westminster. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave by Mary Prince Mary Prince 1831 Mary Prince (1 October 1788 – after 1833) was a British abolitionist and autobiographer, born in Bermuda to an slave family of African descent. Subsequent to her escape, when she was living in London, England, she and Thomas Pringle wrote her slave narrative The History of Mary Prince (1831), which was the first account of the life of a black slave woman to be published in the United Kingdom. This first-hand description of the brutalities of enslavement, released at a time when slavery was still legal in Bermuda and British Caribbean colonies, had a galvanising effect on the British anti-slavery movement. It was reprinted twice in its first year. Prince was illiterate and had her account transcribed while living and working in England at the home of Pringle, secretary of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (aka Anti-Slavery Society, 1823–1838). She had gone to London with her master and his family in 1828 from Antigua. External Website

Authors P University Lectures and Lesson in Life ➝ A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, A Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home ➝ Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence ➝ Little One ➝ Doug's story: the struggle for a fair go ➝ The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave by Mary Prince ➝ Feathers of the Snow Angel: Memories of a Child in Exile ➝ A Lonely Little Girl Goes to University ➝ Back to Top

Authors H Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women ➝ Dickens The Orphan Condition ➝ Collective Revenge: Challenging the Individualist Victim-Avenger in Death Proof, Sleepers, and Mystic River ➝ Children's Homes. A History of Institutional Care for Britain's Young ➝ Back to Top

Academic Books & Book Chapters Silent System: Forgotten Australians the Institutionalisation of Women and Children Paul Ashton & Jacqueline Z Wilson (Editors ➝ The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance John Boswell ➝ Parragirls: Reimagining Parramatta Girls Home through art and memory Bonney Djuric ➝ Street urchins, sociopaths and degenerates: orphans of late-Victorian and Edwardian fiction William David Floyd ➝ Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women Jenny Hartley ➝ Dickens The Orphan Condition Baruch Hochman; Ilja Wachs ➝ The magic of Harry Potter for children in care Sarah Mokrzycki ➝ The Scars Remain: A Long History of Forgotten Australians and Children's Institutions Nell Musgrove ➝ The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature: Estate, Blood, and Body Cheryl L Nixon ➝ Who Cares?: Young People in Care Speak Out Raissa Page, G A Clark (editors ➝ Orphan texts: Victorian orphans, culture and empire Laura Peters ➝ The Stolen Generations. The removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969 Peter Read ➝ Orphans: A History Jeremy Seabrook ➝ Behind Closed Doors: Hidden Histories of Children Committed to Care in the Late Nineteenth Century (1882-1899) Annie Skinner ➝ What Works for Young People Leaving Care? Mike Stein ➝ Re-reading Orphanhood Diane Warren and Laura Peters (Editors) ➝ Transmedia Harry Potter: Essays on Storytelling Across Platforms Christopher E Bell ➝ Voices of the Lost Children of Greece: Oral Histories of Cold War International Adoption Mary Cardaras (Editor) ➝ Contesting Childhood: Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory Kate Douglas ➝ Convict Orphans Lucy Frost ➝ Collective Revenge: Challenging the Individualist Victim-Avenger in Death Proof, Sleepers, and Mystic River Claire Henry ➝ UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970: A Study in Policy Failure Gordon Lynch ➝ Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, And Contested Citizenship in London Lydia Murdoch ➝ Voices from the Silent Cradles - Life Histories of Romania’s Looked-After Children Mariela Neagu ➝ Imagining Adoption. Marianne Novy (Editor) ➝ Jacqueline Wilson (New Casebooks) Lucy Pearson ➝ Enuring Stuggle: St Mary's Tardun Farm School David Plowman ➝ The Children of Looked After Children: Outcomes, Experiences and Ensuring Meaningful Support to Young Parents In and Leaving Care Louise Roberts ➝ Orphans Real and Imaginary Eileen Simpson ➝ A Home from Home? Children and Social Care in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1870-1920 Claudia Soares ➝ Leaving care (out of print) Mike Stein et al ➝ Orphans of Empire. The fate of London's foundlings Helen Berry ➝ Goodna Girls Adele Chenowyth ➝ Cultural, autobiographical and absent memories of orphanhood Delyth Edwards ➝ The Orphan in Fiction and Comics since the 19th Century Gymnich, Marion; Puschmann-Nalenz, Barbara; Sedlmayr, Gerold. ➝ Children's Homes. A History of Institutional Care for Britain's Young Peter Higginbotham ➝ Just Like a Family? Writing to Heal—The Emergence of Foster Care in Literature'. Michell et al. ➝ After the orphanage: life beyond the children's home Murray et al ➝ Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption and Foster Care in America, 1850-1929 Claudia Nelson ➝ Visibly Invisible - The tale of a Black Female Social Worker Rebecca Olayinka ➝ Orphans of the Living: Growing Up in Care in Twentieth-Century Australia Joanna Penglase ➝ The Orphan: A Journey to Wholeness Audrey Punnett ➝ Raising Government Children Catherine Rymph ➝ Relinquished Gretchen Sisson ➝ Care Less Lives - The story of the rights movement of young people in care Stein et al ➝ Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid pro quo? Gonda Van Steen ➝ Back to Top

Activists The First Care Experienced Activist? Hannah Brown 1866 Hannah Brown (1866-1973) was baptized Hannah Sherman at the foundling hospital in 1866. Hannah later wrote The Child She Bare, an account of her childhood experiences which she published anonymously as a foundling.Hannah Brown was brought to the Foundling Hospital in 1866. She wrote an account of her childhood experiences which was published anonymously The Child She Bare, A Foundling (London, Headley, 1919). She is quite negative about her time in the Foundling Hospital. And for when it was written many of her observations are spot on. She writes about the stigma and how ‘children’s happiness and future welfare is sacrificed, even to the extent of their mother’s name, nationality – thrown in the world without a relative or friend to confide in…and have no right to the stigma attached to them.’ External Website

Activists Founder of the oldest black orphanage in the United States. Carrie Steele Logan 1892 Carrie Steele Logan, born into slavery and orphaned as a child, worked as a maid at Union Station in Atlanta. Moved by the plight of abandoned children she encountered, she began caring for them in her small home. Realizing she needed more space, Steele wrote and sold her autobiography to raise funds. In 1888, she secured a charter for the Carrie Steele Orphans' Home and eventually raised enough money to build a three-story brick orphanage, which was dedicated in 1892. founder of the oldest black orphanage in the United States. It became the oldest Black orphanage in the United States, funded entirely through her efforts. Her epitaph reads, “The mother of orphans". Logan was inducted into Georgia Women of Achievement in 1998. External Website

Artists Yusuf P McCormack ➝ Maria Amidu ➝ John Callahan (artist) ➝ Ivan Durrant ➝ Niki de Saint Phalle ➝ Madge Gill ➝ Louise Allen (artist) ➝ Michelangelo ➝ Robi Walters ➝ Rachael Romero ➝ Ralph Fasanella ➝ Terri Broughton ➝ Melissa Gilbert ➝ Robert House ➝ Marina Abramović ➝ Samuel Robin Spark ➝ Leonardo da Vinci ➝ Vincent Namatjira ➝ Goldie (artist) ➝ Angel De Cora ➝ Lonnie Holley ➝ Henry Darger ➝ Arshile Gorky ➝ Al's Art ➝ Frank Auerbach - artist ➝ Barbara Weir ➝ Edmonia Lewis ➝ Back to Top

Artists Terri Broughton Broughton had an inauspicious start in life following the death of both of her parents, but she went on to become the Head of a secondary School at an academy in Norfolk, a highly qualified life coach, a successful educational consultant, and now a highly sought-after artist. Broughton’s paintings are deeply personal, reflecting a traumatic childhood following the death of both parents when she was just seven years old. Terri and her sisters were separated, placed with a succession of foster families, some with wholly unkind treatments, and were only reunited together again in adulthood. She was awarded a Tate Modern prize for her Masters Degree ‘The Identity Project ‘, in which she pioneered the questioning and challenging of first year A Level Art students in Britain about their limiting self-beliefs and values which were inhibiting their creative potential. It was a project that turned art education on its head and has since been incorporated into the National Curriculum for all year groups. During the 18 months that we have all been locked down, Broughton has been working tirelessly in the creation of an extensive body of work which, while often narrative, explores the psychological behaviours of people. External Website

Activists Care Experienced Activist David Akinsanya David Akinsanya ➝ Care Experienced Activist Catherine “Catt” Burland Catherine Burland ➝ Care Experienced Activist Paris Bartholomew Paris Bartholomew ➝ Founder of the oldest black orphanage in the United States. Carrie Steele Logan ➝ The First Care Experienced Activist? Hannah Brown ➝ Back to Top

Fiction featuring Care Experience Ignoring Gravity Sandra Danby 2014 An Adoption Reunion Mystery (Identity Detective Book 1) Debut novel by Yorkshire author Sandra Danby, about an ordinary family with a secret. Rose is adopted and doesn’t know it. The day she finds her mother’s hidden diary is the day she starts to search for who she really is. A story about identity, adoption, family mystery and ultimately of love, the novel connects two pairs of sisters separated by a generation of secrets. As Rose untangles the truth from the lies, she begins to understand why she has always felt so different from her sister Lily. External Website

Cartoons Not all Superheroes wear capes! 2021 Linus has created these animations to help promote The Christmas Dinner Middlesbrough & Teesside. Linus Fossu! Linus is autistic, has learning disabilities and suffers from PTSD and he is also a care leaver! Linus taught himself to animate: https://www.facebook.com/350662655977969/videos/1083234089094701 External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience The Lost Child Caryl Phillips 2015 The Lost Child is a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it. At its centre is Monica Johnson, cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner, and her bitter struggle to raise her sons in the shadow of the wild moors of the north of England. Intertwined with her modern narrative is the ragged childhood of Emily Brontë’s Heathcliff, the anti-hero of Wuthering Heights and one of literature’s most enigmatic lost boys. The Lost Child is bookended by two scenes that feature the seven-year-old Heathcliff. Left purposefully mysterious by Emily Brontë, his origins are here fleshed out by Phillips, who makes him the illegitimate son of Mr Earnshaw by an African former slave. In the early scene, the boy’s mother is dying of disease in Liverpool; the novel ends with her son being led over the moors by Mr Earnshaw to Wuthering Heights. External Website