Prostitute’s Confession Reveals Cold Reality of Starvation
A LondonMagdalen recounts years of poverty and prostitution driven by starvation while seeking honest work. She details y earning from shirt work and later umbrella coverings, the workhouse ordeal, family strain, and her struggle to quit despite offers and threats to her child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magdalen
Irl
Roe
London
Regent’s Park
St. John'’s Wood
Morning Chronicle
Abolition of Taxes on Knowledge Favored by Reform Groups
The piece argues for repealing taxes on books and newspapers to boost popular education and press freedom. It urges the trading classes and reformers to press for tax relief, noting wartime taxes linger and hinder knowledge dissemination. Also outlines sympathy for orphans and Chartist support, with a curious Anecdote about the Inca of Peru.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friends of
Queen Anne
Victoria
Orphan Working School
Chartists
Reform Movement
Dudley Chartist Association
Atchnological Society of Washington
Bartlett
United States
Peru
G. Arnold
Providence
Arnold
South America
Temple of the Sun
Church Debates Conscience and the Bible in Dissent Debates
A Birmingham preacher attacks a pamphlet defending church rates at an anti church-rate meeting in Burslem. The piece argues the author misuses scripture and history to defend state church funding, while listing almanacks and pocket-books as related 19th century publications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brewin Grant
Birmingham
London
Chas. Gilpin
Burslem
Henry VIII
Gilpin
Religious Tract Society
Snow
Brompton
Ramsey
Also Mentioned on This Page
England and
Wales
Junius Secundus
Darling
Mark
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