Changing Sentiments and the Magdalen Hospital Richard Petersen The contributors are researchers and

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Changing Sentiments and the Magdalen Hospital Richard Petersen The contributors are researchers andThis book charts the complex ideological territory of eighteenth century sentimental discourse through the uniquely revealing lens of the London Magdalen Hospital for Penitent Prostitutes. The establishment of the London Magdalen House in 1758 is read as the cultural high watermark of sentimental confidence in the compatibility of virtue and commerce. It is the product of a whiggish, moral sense discourse at its most ebullient and culturally