Kingsley, Charles,  1819-1875 <br/><br/>
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alton_Locke  Release date is 2005-06-01 
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<br/><br/> "Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography" by Charles Kingsley is a novel published in 1850. Written in sympathy with the Chartist movement, it follows a young tailor-boy with poetic ambitions beyond his working-class station. The novel exposes social injustices faced by clothing workers and agricultural laborers while chronicling Alton's passionate involvement in working-class reform. Through intense patriotism, vain struggles for love, and righteous indignation, he fights for change—but at what cost to his fragile spirit? (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Working class -- Fiction England -- Fiction Bildungsromans Young men -- Fiction Christian fiction Poets -- Fiction Tailors -- Fiction Labor movement -- Fiction 
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