Lancashire lasses and Yorkshire lads: childhood in the early nineteenth century.

Abstract

to indulge in what persists of the Romantics’ eighteenth century of ’man as revealed by nature in childhood’ was purchased in the economic explosion of the Industrial Revolution. The price was paid by those who worked in the ’dark satanic mills’ of Blake whose poems and pictures were a witness to their age. Save for Blake’s testimony, literal, allegorical, or visual, little would persist in our Western culture to recall the price. Today, the economics of childhood around the world