Image of Richard Dugard Grainger (1827)

The report was written by R.D. Grainger, as part of his wokr at the Children's Employment Commission. His report outlined the dangers to young women--mostly between the ages of 14 and 16--from the conditions of millinery and dress-making work. Initiated a lot of public discussion about the relationship between women's reproductive and laboring capacities, and inspired the fiction of Charlotte Tonna, specifically The Wrongs of Woman

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1842 to 1842

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