Located in Paris, the Bibliothèque nationale de France is the national repository of everything published in France. It began in 1368 as the royal library of Charles V in the Louvre Palace.

Although "The Cry of the Children" was written and published in the nineteenth century, its message is still very applicable in our modern world. Pictured is a child laborer in present-day Indonesia. 

"The Cry of the Children" was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in Edinburgh, Scotland in August of 1843. This is interesting, given that EBB held liberal political views and the magazine was known for typically conservative positions.

Hitting closer to home where this timeline was created at Baylor University (Waco, Texas), this image shows a girl working at Brazos Valley Cotton Mill in West, Texas.  Factories in West employed child laborers as late as 1913.

On 7 August 1843, EBB wrote a letter to her friend R.H. Horne, who had been involved in a Parliamentary commission to investigate factory conditions in Wolverhampton. In this letter, EBB said that "The Cry of the Children" "owes its utterance to your exciting causations," referring to Horne's work as one of the investigators of the factories.

In December of 1847, EBB's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point," a poem also calling for social justice, was published in The Liberty Bell in Boston, Massachusetts.

EBB died in Florence, Italy on 29 June 1861 when she was fifty-five. Her husband, poet Robert Browning, said that she died in his arms with "a smile on her face." Her grave is at The English Protestant Cemetery in Florence. 

EBB lived at 50 Wimpole St. in London from 1838 -1846, meaning that she lived here when "The Cry of the Children" was published in 1843. 

EBB was born in Coxhoe Hall in Durham, England on 6 March 1806. She was the oldest of twelve children born to Edward and Mary Barrett Moulton Barrett.