| Title | The Factory Lad, or the Life of Simon Smike. Title page. |
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| Creator | Anon.
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| Description | ... "exemplifying the horrors of white slavery."
Set in Wigston, Liecester in the mills and manufactories.
Begins with the poem of The Factory Fiend:
"As I walk'd one night, in the pale moonlight,
I a demon grim did see:
He sat on some stones, gnawing human bones,
And he feasted merrily.
His wine was the blood of the fair and the good,
Drawn from the veins when young,
And tears like pearls shed by factory girls,
Round his head in ringlets hung. |
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| Date Created | 1839 |
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| Manufacturer/Publisher | Thomas White, London |
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| Holding Organisation | Oldham Local Studies and Archives |
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| Accession Number | Smike |
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