Blackpoll, Stephen

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Blackpoll, Stephen

Clark, Joseph Clayton (1856-1937)

Kyd

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"

Hard Times

Hard times for these times

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Characters - Dickens, Charles; Illustrations - Dickens, Charles; Watercolor painting - Specimens; Color drawing - Specimens

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circa 1887-1899

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Hard Times

Hard times for these times

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Characters - Dickens, Charles; Illustrations - Dickens, Charles; Watercolor painting - Specimens; Color drawing - Specimens