When Hitler Took Cocaine And Lenin Lost His Brain - Plot & Excerpts
‘Wanted,’ it read, ‘respectable woman to take young child.’ The advertisement had been placed in the newspaper by Evelina Marmon, a twenty-five-year-old barmaid. Two months earlier, in January 1896, Evelina had given birth to a baby girl named Doris. Unable to meet the cost of feeding and clothing the child, and abandoned by the man who made her pregnant, Evelina had no option but to find a foster home. As she read through the advert she’d placed in the newspaper, her eye happened to fall on another advertisement on the same page. ‘Married couple with no family would adopt healthy child, nice country home. Terms, £10.’ Foster families were not unusual in Victorian Britain. Unwanted pregnancies and poverty had led to a veritable foster industry, with thousands of illegitimate children being discreetly farmed out to charitable families. The mother of the unwanted child would pay a fee – it was either a one-off payment or a monthly advance – and find herself free of the stigma of having a child born out of wedlock.
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