Date:1932
Description:Ginger tells the story of a fictional boy named Harry Smith and how poverty and his stepfather’s cruelty turned him to crime. He was placed in Middlemore Homes and sent to Australia. The story ends happily with Harry pleased to be an Australian. It was written by Paul Cadbury to raise funds for the Homes and show the positive difference that emigration could make. In reality many children sent to Australia did not have such a happy experience. Cadbury’s mother, Geraldine Southall Cadbury, was well known as a reformer of the youth criminal justice system and Paul shared her and his father Barrow Cadbury’s interests in this area.
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