Books with title Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography

ALTON LOCKE, TAILOR AND POET. CHAPTER 1. A POET'S CHILDHOOD. I A;l a Cockney among Cockneys. Italy and the TropIcs, the Highlands and Devonshire, I know only in dreams. Even the Surrey hills, of whose loveliness I have heard so much, are to me a distant fairy-land, whose gleaming ridges I am worthy only to behold afar. 'Vith the exception of two journeys, never to be forgotten, my knowleJge of England ii' bounded bv the horizon which encircles Richmond hill. 11y eariiest recollections are of a suburban street; of its jumble of little shops and little terraces, each exhibiting some fresh variety of capricious ugliness; the little scraps of garden before the doors, with their dusty, stunted lilacs and balsam poplars, were my only forests; my only wild animals, the dingy, merry sparrows, who quareled fearlessly on my windowsill, ignorant of trap or gun. From my earliest childhood, through long nights of sleepless pain, as the miJllight brightenedAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org

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The tract appended to this preface has been chosen to accompany this reprint of Alton Locke in order to illustrate, from another side, a distinct period in the life of Charles Kingsley, which stands out very much by itself. It may be taken roughly to have extended from 1848 to 1856. It has been thought that they require a preface, and I have undertaken to write it, as one of the few survivors of those who were most intimatelv associated with the author at the time to which the works refer. No easy task; for, look at them from what point we will, these years must be allowed to cover an anxious and critical time in modern English historv; but, above all, in the history of the working classes. In the first of them the Chartist agitation came to a head and burst, and was followed by the great movement towards association, which, developing in two directions and by two distinct methods represented respectively by the amalgamated Trades Unions, and Cooperative Societies has in the intervening years entirelychanged the conditions of the labour question in England, and the relations of the working to the upper and middle classes. It is with this, the social and industrial side of the history of those years, that we are mainly concerned here. Charles Kingsley has left other and more important writings of those years. But these are beside our purpose, which is to give some such slight sketch of him as may be possible within the limits of a preface, in the character in which he was first widely known, as the most out-spoken and powerful of those who took the side of the labouring classes, at a critical time the crisis, in a word, when they abandoned their old political weapons, for the more potent one of union and association, which lias since carried them so far.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical wr