The Resource Black Country orphan, Annie Murray
Black Country orphan, Annie Murray
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The item Black Country orphan, Annie Murray represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Black Country orphan, Annie Murray represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
- Summary
- The early 1900s: Cradley Heath, a town in the Black Country near Birmingham and centre of the world's chain-making trade. Lucy Butler, a young girl crippled by a cruel accident, lives with her two brothers and widowed mother, a chain-maker barely making ends meet. When tragedy strikes, the Butler family is separated and Lucy is taken in by Bertha Hipkiss, another impoverished chain maker, struggling to look after her own family. Lucy, while feeling the loss of her own family, relies on the company of Bertha's two sons, charming Clem and straight-laced John. Though clever at school, Lucy knows she must leave and earn her keep, working many hours in the backyard forge. The five women toiling side by side, inevitably have their own friendships and squabbles. But they're united in their hatred of loathsome middleman Seth Dawson, who treats the women with contempt, and keeps their pay punishingly low. But by the 1910s, there is a movement stirring, as across the country workers begin unionising for their rights. For Lucy, Bertha and the women of Cradley Heath, the promise of a better life seems almost too much to hope for - and the fight may end up costing them everything..
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Black Country orphan
- Title
- Black Country orphan
- Statement of responsibility
- Annie Murray
- Subject
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- Domestic fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Labor unions -- Fiction
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Black Country (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Romance fiction
- Women -- England -- Fiction
- Poverty -- Fiction
- Cradley Heath (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The early 1900s: Cradley Heath, a town in the Black Country near Birmingham and centre of the world's chain-making trade. Lucy Butler, a young girl crippled by a cruel accident, lives with her two brothers and widowed mother, a chain-maker barely making ends meet. When tragedy strikes, the Butler family is separated and Lucy is taken in by Bertha Hipkiss, another impoverished chain maker, struggling to look after her own family. Lucy, while feeling the loss of her own family, relies on the company of Bertha's two sons, charming Clem and straight-laced John. Though clever at school, Lucy knows she must leave and earn her keep, working many hours in the backyard forge. The five women toiling side by side, inevitably have their own friendships and squabbles. But they're united in their hatred of loathsome middleman Seth Dawson, who treats the women with contempt, and keeps their pay punishingly low. But by the 1910s, there is a movement stirring, as across the country workers begin unionising for their rights. For Lucy, Bertha and the women of Cradley Heath, the promise of a better life seems almost too much to hope for - and the fight may end up costing them everything..
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Murray, Annie
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- Literary form
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- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women
- Life change events
- Poverty
- Families
- Female friendship
- Orphans
- Labor unions
- Black Country (England)
- Cradley Heath (England)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Black Country orphan, Annie Murray
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p2251665140
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 383 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781529011791
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- Black Country orphan, Annie Murray
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p2251665140
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 383 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781529011791
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
Subject
- Domestic fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Labor unions -- Fiction
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Black Country (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Romance fiction
- Women -- England -- Fiction
- Poverty -- Fiction
- Cradley Heath (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
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