Witness Narratives and Working-Class Suffering: "The Cry of the Children," Corn Law Rhymes , and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Unpublished Hunger Ballad.
The primary historical context for interpretations of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Cry of the Children" (1843) has long been the 1842–43 Children's Employment Commission reports. Examining the poem in light of Barrett Browning's prior attempt to address working-class suffering in "O pardon dear...
| Publicado en: | Victorian Studies Vol. 62; no. 4; pp. 616 - 644 |
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2020
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