The Awakening Conscience

The Awakening Conscience was painted by William Holman Hunt in 1853 and depicts a man and his mistress with the mistress in the middle of a revelation and rising toward redemption. The painting is also full of symbolism and includes such things as a man's glove on the floor which symbolizes the fate of a cast-off mistress was likely to be prostitution, and a tangled mess of yarn on the floor that symbolizes the tangled life and situation the girl has gotten herself into.

Kendal

Kendal, UK, is a market town and civil parish in the South Lakeland District of Cumbria. The town lies in the valley of the River Kent.

Fifeshire

Fifeshire, UK, is a council area and historic county of Scotland located between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth. In the nineteenth century, Fife became a site of industry, particularly with coal mining.

"The Cry of the Children" (1843) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

This is the first omnibus scholarly edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's (then Elizabeth Barrett Barrett) protest poem "The Cry of the Children" (1843), as it was published in Blackwood's Magazine.  The editors and annotators have built on sustained scholarly engagement about the poem, its contexts, and its relationship with laboring-class poetry of the time.  This was initiated by their cooperation for "Rhyme and Reform: Victorian Working-Class Poets and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Cry of the Children.'"  This two-day, international, multi-site symposium (Oct.

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Cry of the Children,
child labor
Factory Acts
Children's Employment Commission
protest poetry
religion and politics
hungry forties
Chartism
working-class poetry
Parliamentary Reform
factory labor
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mining
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