Provides a valuable insight into society, culture, and the politics of charity. It will be of value to anyone interested in charity or this rich period of British history. [...] Provides a celebration of the man and his achievements and, as such, it is also a testimony to basic human energy and compassion. * H-NET BOOK REVIEW *
Offers a rich insight into the culture and mental world of Hanoverian England. Handel and Hogarth are among the luminaries who flit across its pages, personalities are given life in engaging pen-portraits, and the evocation of London is by turns charmingly vivid and unsparing in its harrowing detail. [...] It was partly through [Coram's] labours that charitable endeavour became formidably organised, endowed with formal status, and made, above all, fashionable, as an extension of politics and the arts. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *
An account which is rigorously unsentimental, a measured biography which does much to flesh out Thomas Coram. * TLS *
A much-needed biography of this early pioneer of children's charity. * SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS *
