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

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Article

Publication Date

1-1-2012

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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.

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