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Eden, Sir Frederick. State of the Poor, vol. iii. pp. 768, 821, 847.

The Handloom Weaver’s Wife.

Gaskell, P. Manufacturing Population, p. 40.

Mantoux. La Révolution industrielle, pp. 442-3.

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The Factory.

Tuckett, J. D. History of the Labouring Population, pp. 208-9.