Winlaton: The story of a noxious weed

by Merlene Fawdry

Winlaton is a section excerpt from The Little Mongrel- free to a good home, taken from the third section of the book and titled, A Noxious Weed. It takes the reader inside the institution, established in 1956 as the main state-run institution for adolescent girls. Due to changes in child welfare legislation and, fundamentally, moral and control panics about juvenile delinquency in the 1950s and 1960s, the number of girls increased throughout the 1950s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150041106X
• ISBN13: 9781500411060
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"