Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet; An Autobiography
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet; An Autobiography
                                            
                            By Charles Kingsley
                            
                                12 Feb, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Alton Locke is an 1850 novel, by Charles Kingsley, written in sympathy with the Chartist movement, in which Carlyle is introduced as one of the personages. In this novel, Kingsley set out to expose the social injustice suffered by workers in the clot
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                                                Alton Locke is an 1850 novel, by Charles Kingsley, written in sympathy with the Chartist movement, in which Carlyle is introduced as one of the personages. In this novel, Kingsley set out to expose the social injustice suffered by workers in the clothing trade and the trials and tribulations of agricultural labourers. It also gives an insight into the Chartist campaign with which Kingsley was involved in the 1840s. Less