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Artifact of Empire: 1840sTyler Vendetti
Artifact: Newspaper advertisement
Author: William Little
Issued by: British Association for the Relief of Extreme Distress in the Remote Parishes of Ireland and Scotland
Publication date: Saturday, January 16, 1847
Publication location: 198 Strand, Parish of St. Clemens, Danes, County of Middlesex,London, UK
From: The Illustrated London News (Historical Archive 1842 – 2003)
ContextIndustrial Revolution caused
mass migration to urban areas
Corn Laws forced higher food prices on urban families
Blight wiped out potato supply in Ireland, causing widespread starvation
Relief programs drove people to the city, created epidemics
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Experiences at Lowood reflect national hunger problems
Both feature committees that come to the rescue
Exposure of poor conditions @ receive negative public attention
Jane = Bronte’s mouthpiece on impoverished communities
Important Quotes “ The scanty supply of food was distressing […] whenever the
famished great girls had an opportunity, they would coax or menace the little ones out of their portion […] after relinquishing to a third [girl] the contents of my mug of coffee, I have swallowed the remainder with an accompaniment of secret tears, forced from me by the exigency of hunger” (122).
“Several wealthy and benevolent individuals in the county subscribed largely for the erection of a more convenient building in a better situation; new regulations were made; improvements in diet and clothing introduced; the funds of the school were entrusted to the management of a committee” (149).
“Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious, working, respectable poverty” (82).
Sources Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. N.p.: Smith, Elder, and
Company, 1847. Print. "Industrial Revolution." History.com. A&E Networks, n.d.
Web. 17 Sept. 2014. http://www.history.com/topics/industrial- revolution
Little, William. British Association for the Relief of Extreme Distress in the Remote Parishes of Ireland and
Scotland. Advertisement. Illustrated London News [London] 16 Jan. 1847: Print.
O'Rourke, John. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847. 2004. Digital file.
Victorian Web. George P. Landow, 8 May 2009. Web. 17 Sept. 2014. <http://www.victorianweb.org/ science/health/ hunger.html>.
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