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A FACTORY VIOLET. 325
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Those Familiar With The Literature Of Th...
she reli p ious iously attributes . At much seven of she her sustained subsequent a severe intellectual loss in , and the
death g of progress her fatherwho had been a soldier in Indiaand who had proved a mos , t affectionate parent . " Many , " , says she ,
• " of were that -haun t land he ted tales of jung the wit h sun which of . the I fancy luxurian was t hat t t vegetatio to amuse descri n p tions and children of of t the he ,
trop poor ger soldiers , must ' have weary been , march tolerabl under y grap the hic glowing , at any , sky rate of they the f them
took great hold of my imagination , for I used to dream o leaving mo years ther af was Ruth terwards compelled and . " two After other to be the children absent father at ' at s work dea home th during , to Ruth keep the Wills house day , *
poor ni nine and ht to years child she lear , managed of n from age the , seven Huth seaming to earn was in of the the sen hose t magnificent morning to . a factory When until sum , between where ei of gh , ei t b g y hteenpence ei working g nine ht and at ,
2 _^ er g week , ! was After promised some be time tter , she wages lef , t bu this t she place had to work naive ther longer , where hours she
she and was does trea " no ted t love harshl to y think , that , of to it . " Lik own e thousands expression of our , to realizthe terribl
force toiling * brethren truth , she of E had lizab already eth Barre begun tt Browning e ' s wild im e -
passioned " CRY OF THE CHILDREN . "
" Do you Ere hear the the sorrow children comes weep with ing , O my ? brothers , years
They are And leaning that their cannot young stop heads their against tears . their mothers ' ,
The The young young lambs birds are are bleating chirping in in the the meadows nest , , the shadows
The The young young fawns flowers are are pla _} blowing ang with towards the west , . brothers
Th But ey the are young They weep , ing are young in weep the children ing playtime bitterl , O y my of ! the others , ,
In the country of the free . " perio Well d did mig not ht poor last long Ruth Wills r its exclaim influence , w It ould was have well g that one this far
towards * " counteractin What a world g all , of the experience good I had and receive practical d from philos oth oph er y
sources is well contained be commended in that to one the little attention sentence of our , a social sentence reformers which . But y her
what Buth Wills would was saved have fro cons m idered the fate to impending be a calamity over . Wo , by rk
some ibecame scarcethe factory door was closed on her , and she was ,
A Factory Violet. 325
A FACTORY VIOLET . 325
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 325, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/37/
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