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LS - Derbyshire Local Studies collection - 19th-21st Cent
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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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Blincoe; Robert (c 1792-1860); Child labourer at Litton Mill, Derbyshire, whose ill-treatment was documented in John Brown's "Memoir of Robert Blincoe".
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Type
Litton Mill
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