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Description edit
Wild or feral children have fascinated us down the centuries, and continue to do so today. In a haunting and hugely readable study, Michael Newton deftly investigates a number of infamous cases. He looks at Peter the Wild Boy, who gripped the attention of Swift and Defoe, and at Victor of... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Mlle. Memmie Le Blanc: aka The Savage Girl of Champagne
- Victor: the Wild Boy of Aveyron
- Amala and Kamala: two girls raised by wolves
- Ivan Mishukov: Russian boy raised by feral dogs after he bailed out of a dysfunctional home at the tender age of 4
- Kaspar Hauser: kept from age 3 to 14 in a single room without human contact
- "Genie" Clark: kept strapped to a potty chair in a room without human contact (except beatings) from age 2 to 13
- Peter The Wild Boy: found in the German woods surviving handily
- John Ssbunnya: boy raised by monkeys in the Ugandan bush
- James Burnett: Add a description of this character.
- Mowgli
- Defoe
- Stanhope
- Madame Hecquet
- Arbuthnot
- Rousseau
- Singh
- Swift
- Susan Curtiss
- Tarzan
- Burroughs
- Irene
- Pinel
- Evans
- George
- Madame Guerin
- Meyer
- Tucher
- Baden
- Romulus
- Buffon
- Monboddo
- Boswell
- Butler
- Truffaut
- Caroline
- Ross
- St James
- James Kent
- Sleeman
Quotes edit
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“She was ill, middle-aged, forgotten by the world at large. Her health had been permanently ruined at the time of her capture -- by being forbidden to swim, Mademoiselle Memmie Le Blanc explained, and by the the cooked foods they had charitably forced her to eat.”
First Sentence edit
Men saye that we have bene begotten miraculously, fostered and geven sucke more straungely, and in our tendre yeres were fedd by birdes and wilde beasts, to whom we were cast out as a praye.
Table of Contents edit
1 The Child of Nature
2 Bodies Without Souls
3 Lord Monboddo and the Savage Girl
4 Radical Innocence
5 The Child of Europe
6 The Wolf-Children
7 Where Is Tomorrow, Mrs. L?
Authors & Contributors edit
- Michael Newton (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Country: England
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0571201393
Page Count: 284
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Country: England
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0571201393
Page Count: 284
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 155.4567
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