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IN 1816, A PARLIAMENTARY committee was formed to find out if the employment of children in England's mills and factories was 'detrimental to their health and morals.' In the same year an Act of Parliament called a halt to the practice of sending homeless children to work in the industrial factories of the north.
In 1817, a bill before Parliament to prohibit the use of climbing boys was defeated. In 1818 and again in 1819, the same bill passed the Commons but was defeated in the House of Lords. Although chimney sweep acts were passed in 1840 and 1864, they were largely disregarded by both homeowners and magistrates. Strict measures against the practice of using small children to clean chimneys were not instituted until 1884, when The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was founded.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MARILYN CLAY is the best-selling author of over two-dozen books, among them nineteen novels (including ten Regencies), three books for children and numerous non-fiction titles. A former University Editor and designer of RWA’s RITA Award, for sixteen years, Marilyn Clay published The Regency Plume, an international newsletter focused on the English Regency period. All back issues, maps and other research material listed on the Plume website are still available from The Regency Plume Newsletter
As of today, ten titles in Marilyn Clay’s new Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series have been published in print and Ebook: Murder At Morland Manor, Murder In Mayfair, Murder In Margate, Murder At Medley Park, Murder In Middlewych, Murder In Maidstone, Murder At Montford Hall, Murder On Marsh Lane, Murder In Martindale and Murder At Marley Chase.
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MISS DARBY’S DEBUT was originally published in print by Kensington Books.
Original Copyright 1997 by Marilyn Jean Clay.
E-book Editions Titled The Hyde Park Spectacle and The Uppity Earl,
Copyright 2012 and 2015 by Marilyn Jean Clay
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