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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Cry of the Children PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Bo Box   
Wednesday, 23 December 2009 00:00

Poetryanimations production of a talking Elizabeth Barrett-Browning portrait reading The Cry of the Children (1842) - one of her poems that helped raise awareness of the joylessness and misery of child labour in Britain's C19th industrialised towns and cities.

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