Pippa's Song

Pippa's Song is a short lyric poem. Its story centers on a fourteen-year-old girl, Pippa, who works in a silk mill. She was an orphan girl. She was abused by her employer and by society. (Source WWW)

{In High School my English teacher, while teaching us this poem, told Pippa had to work 12 hours a day, 364 days in a year. She had one day off in the whole year, and she sings this song, early morning, on the day when she was off }

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Dinesh ^club

At the end of 1831 John Cam Hobhouse en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hobhouse,_1st_Baron_Broughton introduced a Ten Hours Bill to limit the employment of factory children, as a result of which a committee was established to investigate the conditions of what were already called ‘the white slaves’. An act came into force on 1 March 1834, which forbade the employment of children under nine, maintained a forty-eight-hour week for children between the ages of nine and thirteen, and daily maximum of twelve hours fo those between thirteen and eighteen years. It was widely flouted or ignored, and many complained that such government measures were in deliberate opposition of the principles of free trade and fidelity to contract. Yet a stand had been made. For the first time the administration took responsibility for the plight of children under eighteen. It was the first hesitant and flawed step towards a national system of education, although no one could have anticipated such an outcome. ~ Page 72

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Stephan Fey ^club

A bit sad, isn´t it?

19 months ago.

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