TY - BOOK AU - Kingsley,Charles AU - Hughes,Thomas TI - Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography AV - PR PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Working class -- Fiction KW - England -- Fiction KW - Bildungsromans KW - Young men -- Fiction KW - Christian fiction KW - Poets -- Fiction KW - Tailors -- Fiction KW - Labor movement -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alton_Locke; Release date is 2005-06-01; Produced by Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8374 ER -