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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.
It is probably Housman's best-known poem, [1] [2] and one of the most anthologized of English lyrics. [3] Its opening line has become a part of the language, "inextricably lodged in the public mind and vocabulary". [4] In a 1995 poll it was chosen as one of the British people's 100 favourite poems. It has been set to music over 60 times.
After high school, wanting to see the world, Jaques travelled west, working as an itinerant seamstress to pay her way; in Calgary, she stopped. [5] There, in 1918, she wrote a poetic response to John McCrae's "In Flanders' Fields", which was to become her most famous poems.
List of Brontë poems; List of poems by Ivan Bunin; List of poems by Catullus; List of Emily Dickinson poems; List of poems by Robert Frost; List of poems by John Keats; List of poems by Philip Larkin; List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; List of poems by Walt Whitman; List of poems by William Wordsworth; List of works by Andrew Marvell
Appearing in Poems of To-day, first series in 1915, as No. 30, it remained in print in frequent impressions until at least 1942. [33] Smith was a prolific writer, who burned much of what she had written. Only a small proportion of what she left was finished work. [27] The Collected Poems of Ada Elizabeth Smith was published in 1950 (London ...
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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.