A Memoir Of Robert Blincoe

Author : John Brown
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1091949425

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A Memoir of Robert Blincoe by John Brown Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037229684

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A Memoir of Robert Blincoe by John Brown Pdf

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
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781840464702

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The Real Oliver Twist by John Waller Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Factory Lives by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Brown
Publisher : Echo Library
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1406892947

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A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy by John Brown Pdf

Robert Blincoe (c.1792-1860) was orphaned at a young age and by 1796 was living in the St Pancras workhouse in London. Aged six he was sent to work as a chimney sweep's assistant but was soon returned to the workhouse. A year later he was sold to work in a cotton mill near Nottingham, tasked with picking up loose cotton waste from the cotton frames whilst the machines were operating, a dangerous occupation which resulted in the loss of half a finger. Conditions were extremely bad with long working hours, poor food and frequent beatings. When the mill closed in 1802 he was sent to Litton Mill in Derbyshire where his treatment remained the same. By 1813 Blincoe had completed his effective apprenticeship in stock weaving and continued as an adult worker until 1817. He then left to found his own cotton-spinning business and married two years later. In 1822 journalist John Brown met Blincoe and interviewed him for an article on child labour. Brown decided to write Blincoe's biography and gave it to social activist Richard Carlisle who published it in five weekly instalments in his newspaper The Lion in early 1828. In 1832 it was published as a pamphlet which led the government to investigate the poor conditions in the mills. It has been claimed that Charles Dickens based his character Oliver Twist on Blincoe but there is no firm evidence to support this.

Author : James R. Simmons, Jr
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1551112728

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Factory Lives by James R. Simmons, Jr Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : English literature
ISBN : BL:A0021806413

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The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy by Frances Milton Trollope Pdf

Author : Jane Humphries
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139489287

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Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution by Jane Humphries Pdf

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
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547249382

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A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy by John Brown Pdf

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 : Robert Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416551829

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The Ghost by Robert Harris Pdf

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.

Author : Edward Palmer Thompson
Publisher : IICA
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Making of the English Working Class by Edward Palmer Thompson Pdf

This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.

Author : John BROWN (of Little Bolton.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018550949

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A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an orphan boy; sent ... to endure the horrors of a cotton-mill by John BROWN (of Little Bolton.) Pdf

Author : Stuart Courtman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1907219285

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Robert Blincoe and the Cotton Trade by Stuart Courtman Pdf

This book contains the original full 1828 text of 'A Memoir of Robert Blincoe' by John Brown and historical notes by the author, Stuart Courtman.The historical notes give information on the influences that led to the development of mechanised cotton production and notes on the political and economic changes that shaped the industry.

Author : George Unwin,Arthur Hulme,George Taylor
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Cotton growing
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Samuel Oldknow and the Arkwrights by George Unwin,Arthur Hulme,George Taylor Pdf

Author : Sir Sydney John Chapman
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014166020

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The Lancashire Cotton Industry by Sir Sydney John Chapman Pdf

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