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* ''[[The Cider House Rules]]'' had a loving, if shabby around the edges and low on funding, orphanage-and-abortion-clinic.
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* "In an old house in Paris, all covered in vines, lived twelve little girls, in two straight lines". The smallest one was ''[[Madeline]]''. Though it's technically a boarding school, Madeline herself is an orphan and the other kids' parents never really figure into the plot. <!-- If this is wrong and they do indeed, please take the "Repair, Don't Respond" route and remove that line. -->
* Plumfield Estate School, the orphanage/school that Jo and her husband run in Louisa May Alcott's ''[[Little Women|Little Men]]''.
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* The orphanage/boarding school Georgie is sent to in ''The Lottery Rose'' would qualify.
* In ''Brat Farrar'' by [[Josephine Tey]], the protagonist's backstory features such an orphanage:
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* Mother Karen's home in ''[[Spellbent]]'' and ''Shotgun Sorceress'' by [[Lucy Snyder]] is one of these. Mother Karen herself rivals [[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood|Fred Rogers]] in the "Friend to all children" category and is unfailingly kind even when monumentally stressed out. What she can't do, she relies on the teenage orphans (raised under her sterling example, of course) to do.
* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Chaos]]'', the boarding school stradles the line between this and [[Orphanage of Fear]]. On the one hand, they are treated affectionately and given an excellent education. On the other hand, the teachers are under orders to kill them if they start remembering things.
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