Archive Reference / Library Class No. | LS/677.2 |
Title | A memoir of Robert Blincoe. |
Date | 1977 |
Publication Date | 1977 |
Author | Brown, John |
Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
ISBN | 0904573052 |
Abstract | John Brown's A memoir of Robert Blincoe is a classic account of the brutality and suffering endured in some of the new cotton factories at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It is one of the first working class autobiographical memoirs ever published. |
Further Information | First published Manchester: J. Doherty, 1832. Includes details of Litton Mill. |
Term | Mills |
Cotton textile industry |
Child labour |
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Place (click for further details) | Type |
Litton Mill | Historic Monument |