The London Labour and London Poor 8

Lucifer girls are those that create the matches used in everyone's home, or they are on the streets selling them to people; "There are many, especially girls and women, the majority being Irishwomen, who do not directly solicit charity, and do not even say, “Buy a box of lucifers from a poor creature, to get her a ha’porth of bread;” or, “please a bit of broken victuals, if it’s only cold potatoes, for a box of the best lucifers."