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Author | : John Brown |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2019-03-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781091949423 |
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Robert Blincoe (c. 1792-1860) became famous during the 1830s for his popular "autobiography" detailing the horrific account of his childhood spent as a labourer in English cotton mills. This work, however, is not technically an autobiography as his story was told to journalist John Brown, who wrote the manuscript but died before publishing it. The manuscript was given to a friend who published the resulting book, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, in five episodes in the magazine The Lion in 1832. Historian John Waller has asserted that Charles Dickens based his character Oliver Twist on Blincoe, but no firm documentary or anecdotal evidence exists that this is true. Still, the publication of Blincoe's "memoir" had an impact on bringing the horrors of child labour to a wider audience, which in turn led to legislation to limit working hours and improve working conditions for child labourers.
Author | : John Brown |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2022-09-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy" by John Brown. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : John Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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A biographical description of the apprenticeship and labors of Robert Blimcoe (ca.1792-1860), in which the author took " ... pains to compile ... and to collect all the wrongs ... on which he could gain information, about the various sufferers under the cotton-mill systems."
Author | : John Waller |
Publisher | : Icon Books |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2005-10-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1840464704 |
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From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors' jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. In 1792 as revolution, riot and sedition spread across Europe, Robert Blincoe was born in the calm of rural St Pancras parish. At four he was abandoned to a workhouse, never to see his family again. At seven, he was sent 200 miles north to work in one of the cotton mills of the dawning industrial age. He suffered years of unrelenting abuse, a life dictated by the inhuman rhythm of machines. Like Dickens' most famous character, Blincoe rebelled after years of servitude. He fought back against the mill owners, earning beatings but gaining self-respect. He joined the campaign to protect children, gave evidence to a Royal Commission into factory conditions and worked with extraordinary tenacity to keep his own children from the factories. His life was immortalised in one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe. Renowned popular historian John Waller tells the true story of a parish boy's progress with passion and in enthralling detail.
Author | : John BROWN (of Little Bolton.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1832 |
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Download A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an orphan boy; sent ... to endure the horrors of a cotton-mill Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : James R. Simmons, Jr |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2007-04-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 146040341X |
Download Factory Lives Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Factory Lives contains four works of great importance in the field of nineteenth-century working-class autobiography: John Brown’s A Memoir of Robert Blincoe; William Dodd’s A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd; Ellen Johnston’s “Autobiography”; and James Myles’s Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy. This Broadview edition also includes a remarkably rich selection of historical documents that provide context for these works. Appendices include contemporary responses to the autobiographies, debates on factory legislation, transcripts of testimony given before parliamentary committees on child labour, and excerpts from literary works on factory life by Harriet Martineau, Frances Trollope, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others.
Author | : Frances Milton Trollope |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jane Humphries |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2010-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139489283 |
Download Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of apprenticeship and the duration of schooling. The classic era of industrialisation, 1790–1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanisation and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large subsets, common in these turbulent, high-mortality and high-fertility times, often cast children as partners and supports for mothers struggling to hold families together. The book offers unprecedented insights into child labour, family life, careers and schooling. Its images of suffering, stoicism and occasional childish pleasures put the humanity back into economic history and the trauma back into the industrial revolution.
Author | : John Brown |
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Release | : 2018 |
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Download A MEMOIR OF ROBERT BLINCOE An Orphan Boy; SENT FROM THE WORKHOUSE OF ST. PANCRAS, AT LONDON, AT SEVEN YEARS OF AGE TO ENDURE THE Horrors of a Cotton Mill, THROUGH HIS INFANCY AND YOUTH, WITH A MINUTE DETAIL OF HIS SUFFERINGS, BEING THE FIRST MEMOIR OF THE KIND PUBLISHED. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Robert Harris |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2008-08-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1416551824 |
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Retired British prime minister Adam Lang sets out to write a tell-all memoir of his life and political career, an effort for which he hires a ghostwriter who uncovers dangerous secrets about the former leader's term.