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Rare Memoir of a Child's Life in a Cotton Mill

Title: Memoir of Robert Blincoe, An Orphan Boy; Sent from the Workhouse of St. Pancras, London, at Seven Years of Age, to Endure the Horrors of a Cotton-Mill, Through His Infancy and Youth, With a Minute Detail of His Sufferings, Being the First Memoir of the Kind Published
Author: Brown, John
Description: 64 pp. Woodcut vignette on title page. (8vo) 8¼x5¼, original blue printed wrappers. First Edition in book form.An important exposé of the horrors and abuses of child laborers in the cotton mills of 18th century England. Blincoe began his indentured service at the age of seven and completed his apprenticeship in 1813 at the age of 21. Interviewed by John Brown in 1822 Blincoe's memoir first appeared serially in Robert Carlile's radical newspaper 'The Lion' as well as in his 'The Poor Man's Advocate'. Blincoe is thought by some to have been the inspiration for Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. COPAC locates only 5 copies, WorldCat locates 1 additional copy. Rare.
Heading: Place Published: Manchester
Publisher: J. Doherty
Date Published: 1832