Raised by a stern Baptist mother in London, Alton Locke is apprenticed to a sweated tailoring workshop and teaches himself to write poetry. His talent wins him patrons among the gentry and Cambridge dons, but his loyalty to his class draws him into Chartism and the crisis of 1848, with this edition adding Kingsley’s tract Cheap Clothes and Nasty.
A key Christian Socialist novel and a fierce picture of sweated labour, introduced by Thomas Hughes. Download the free EPUB.