Publication

1994 - Woodstock Books, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

10,000 words, Guess

Page Count

40 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL1434624M
  • ISBN-101854771698
  • OCLC Control Number29600979
  • Library of Congress Control Number93046507
  • Goodreads1531022

Classifications

  • DDC821/.8
  • LCCPR5112.N5 A74 1994

Description

"Caroline Norton - granddaughter of R. B. Sheridan, editor, contributor to literary annuals, friend of Lord Melbourne - was one of the most successful literary women of her day, a poet whose work has been strangely neglected. An unhappy marriage led to separation from her children, her anguish flowing into this anonymously-published testament to the abuse of child-labour. Poised between Wordsworth's appalled portrayal in the Excursion of the factory child, lungs filled with cotton fibres, and the more famous protests of the Victorian novel, the poem has brevity, political relevance, and force."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

PoetryChild laborFactory systemChild labor -- Poetry.Factory system -- Poetry.

Places

Series Statement

  • Revolution and romanticism, 1789-1834

Other Editions

  • A voice from the factoriesWoodstock Books1994

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