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"The Song of the Shirt" is a poem written by Thomas Hood in 1843. It was written in honour of a Mrs. Biddell, a widow and seamstress living in wretched conditions. In what was, at that time, common practice, Mrs. Biddell sewed trousers and shirts in her home using materials supplied to her by her employer for which she was forced to give a £ 2 ...
She had been ill for a while. The Los Angeles Times described Coleman as "a force on the Los Angeles poetry scene" and the city's unofficial poet laureate. [12] After her death, Black Sparrow Press, Coleman's longtime publisher, released Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems, Edited & Introduced by Terrance Hayes in 2020. The collection draws work ...
Anna Blunden -The Seamstress or For Only One Short Hour, 1854, – (Yale Center for British Art) Blunden was born on 22 December 1829 in St John's Square, Clerkenwell, London. Her parents were bookbinders, who moved to start a business making straw hats and silk flowers in Exeter (c.1833). There Blunden attended a Quaker school.
Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (February 1818 – May 1907) [1] was an African-American seamstress, activist, and writer who lived in Washington, D.C. She was the personal dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. [2] She wrote an autobiography. She was born enslaved to Armistead Burwell who had also fathered her.
For example, the poem provoked a negative response from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, featured in her poem “The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to Write a Poem called The Lady’s Dressing Room.” In this poem, she voices what many thought was the reason for his writing the poem: sexual frustration.
Around 1910, Charles Villiers Stanford produced a musical setting for the poem. It is a dramatic interpretation requiring a skilled (male) vocalist and equally skilled accompanist. [17] In the 21st century it remains popular and is included on many anthologies of English song or British Art Music recorded by famous artists. [18]
During the 1960s, Agüeros worked with a variety of community groups in New York. Starting out at the Henry Street Settlement, he moved on to the Office of Economic Opportunity, a federal agency created by President Lyndon Johnson to fight the War on Poverty, before becoming the deputy director of the Puerto Rican Community Development Project (PRCDP), [3] the nation's first Puerto Rican anti ...
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (née Kingsmill; April 1661 – 5 August 1720), was an English poet and courtier.Finch wrote in many genres and on many topics - including fables, odes, songs, and religious verse - which are informed by "political ideology, religious orientation, and aesthetic sensibility". [1]