The Real Oliver Twist. Robert Blincoe - A Life That Illuminates An Age

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Icon
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: 468 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on spine). Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoes political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. In 1792 as revolution, riot and sedition spread across Europe, Robert Blincoe was born in the calm of rural St Pancras parish. At four he was abandoned to a workhouse, never to see his family again. At seven, he was sent 200 miles north to work in one of the cotton mills of the dawning industrial age. He suffered years of unrelenting abuse, a life dictated by the inhuman rhythm of machines. Like Dickens most famous character, Blincoe rebelled after years of servitude. He fought back against the mill owners, earning beatings but gaining self-respect. He joined the campaign to protect children, gave evidence to a Royal Commission into factory conditions and worked with extraordinary tenacity to keep his own children from the factories. His life was immortalised in one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe. Renowned popular historian John Waller tells the true story of a parish boys progress with passion and in enthralling detail.

ISBN: 9781840465426