Blackpoll, Stephen
Identifier
http://dp.la/api/items/585db243c27473db9aea5ba1e288a7fa
Title
Blackpoll, Stephen
Creator
Clark, Joseph Clayton (1856-1937)
Kyd
Date
circa 1887-1899
Description
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"
Subject
Hard Times
Hard times for these times
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Characters - Dickens, Charles; Illustrations - Dickens, Charles; Watercolor painting - Specimens; Color drawing - Specimens
Source
OKHub
Date
circa 1887-1899
Source
OKHub
Subject
Hard Times
Hard times for these times
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Characters - Dickens, Charles; Illustrations - Dickens, Charles; Watercolor painting - Specimens; Color drawing - Specimens
Collection
Citation
Clark, Joseph Clayton (1856-1937) and Kyd, “Blackpoll, Stephen,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed April 18, 2024, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/6684.
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