Art and Literature
- William Blake Jerusalem - dark satanic mills.
- Mrs Gaskell : Mary Barton(1848), North and South (1855)
- Charles Sheeler
- Cynthia Harrod-Eagles wrote fictional accounts of the early days of factories and the events of the Industrial Revolution in The Maiden, The Flood Tide, The Tangled Thread, The Emperor, The Victory, The Regency, The Reckoning and The Devil's Horse, Volumes 8-13, 15 and 16 of The Morland Dynasty, The difficulties of getting cottage workers to accept the regimented and unwholesome life in factories as opposed to the relative freedom and flexibility of home-working is demonstrated in the earlier volumes mentioned as well as the concerns of some of the more philanthropically minded characters regarding the living and working conditions of the workers. The later volumes demonstrate that plans to improve the lot of factory hands, and the poor generally, were not welcomed by everybody – even by some essentially well-meaning people.
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