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How is
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Cry of the Children”
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a response to conditions like those in the
evidence given before the Sadler Commission
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? How does she portray the effects of industrial labor on children? Who was the audience for this poem, and how might it have influenced public opinion?
Resources
https://victorianweb.org/history/workers1.html
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/elizabeth-barrett-brownings-the-cry-of-the-children-as-first-published-in-blackwoods-edinburgh-magazine