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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 ...
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.
"A poor example" "The classic" "A good move" "Ah, those sensitive fingers" "How awful" "Compensation" "Side effect" "A la freud" "Don't breathe" "What a shame!" "Fit for his work" "The cost of ignorance" "The prospective widow" "The stars and stripes forever" "Forethought" "Music lover" "Too bad" "Slow but sure" "Valedictorian" "Ouch!" "Law ...
Famous limerick examples Limerick and orange gloves on purple background The writer Rudyard Kipling, famous for works such as The Jungle Book , penned this tale of a young French-Canadian boy:
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.
A clerihew (/ ˈ k l ɛr ɪ h j uː /) is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem of a type invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the remainder puts the subject in an absurd light or reveals something unknown or spurious about the subject.
A Florida woman just celebrated a monumental birthday. Nesta Leeloo, a Jamaican-born retired seamstress who now lives in Tamarac, turned 108 years old on Monday, Jan. 6. According to NBC 6 South ...
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]