| Front | Alton locke |
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| Back | tailor and poet novel Charles Kingsley 1850 it reflects the social and political turbulence of the 1840s expressing Kingsley's Christian chartism and making a significant contribution to the debate about the 'condition of England' Alton locke the son of a small shopkeeper is apprenticed to a tailor and experiences the squalid conditions of sweated labour his poetry brings him into contact with Eleanor Staunton, her cousin Lillian Alton locke allows his revolutionary verse to be made innocuous before publication it is Eleanor who stands by him when he falls ill with typhus disillusioned by demagogy and violence, Alton becomes a Christian socialist he dies on his way to the USA |
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