'Gooin t' schoo': The Subject of Adult Education in Dialect Poetry from the Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861–65.
'The Beddin's Goan', published in the Blackburn Times in November 1862 by W. A. Abram, begins with the lines 'EH! Robbut! th' lan'lord's bin tu-day, | Whol tha wor deawn at th'class', encapsulating links between unemployment, poverty, and education which became apparent to industrial workers during...
| Publicado en: | 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century no. 37; pp. 1 - 22 |
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