Literary Activism: James Montgomery, Joanna Baillie, and the Plight of Britain’s Chimney Sweeps

Creator(s)

Judith Bailey Slagle, East Tennessee State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Description

Excerpt: On 6 February 1824, Joanna Baillie Notified Her Friend Walter Scott that Scottish poet James Montgomery, then living in Sherrield, England, had written to ask her for a poem on the plight on chimney sweeps, also known as climbing boys.

Citation Information

Slagle, Judith Bailey. 2012. Literary Activism: James Montgomery, Joanna Baillie, and the Plight of Britain’s Chimney Sweeps. Studies in Romanticism. Vol.51(1). 59-76. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24247292 ISSN: 0039-3762