Blackpool, Stephen

Blackpool, Stephen

circa 1887-1899

A power-loom operator in Bounderby's Mills. Loved Rachel, a factory worker, but could not marry her because he was chained to a worthless wife who had become a drunkard and had wrecked his home life. Life's experience to him was "aw a muddle". He was misunderstood, and falsely accused of being concerned in a bank robbery. Ultimately was killed by falling into an unfenced pit shaft. "A rather stooping man with a knitted brow, a pondering expression of his face, and a hard-looking head sufficiently capacious, on which his iron grey hair lay long and thin. Stephen bent over his loom, quiet, watchful, and steady, a special contrast, as every man was in the forest of looms where Stephen worked, to the crashing, smashing, tearing piece of mechanism at which he laboured"

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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