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  • I remember Engels in particular had a lot to say about 'sexuality in all its diversity and complexity', particularly in relation to Lancashire mill-girls.

    The Church May have Nothing to Say To Marxists, But Marxists Certainly Have Nothing to Say to The Church Laban 2003

  • I entered the town in state in a procession of ten landaus, and drove through streets crowded with enthusiastic operatives and mill-girls.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • I entered the town in state in a procession of ten landaus, and drove through streets crowded with enthusiastic operatives and mill-girls.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • I entered the town in state in a procession of ten landaus, and drove through streets crowded with enthusiastic operatives and mill-girls.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • I remember Engels in particular had a lot to say about 'sexuality in all its diversity and complexity', particularly in relation to Lancashire mill-girls.

    Archive 2003-06-29 Laban 2003

  • This evening they talked over the novel grievance, and the temptations to which the mill-girls were exposed, and Etta proposed a plan for their benefit, which, when matured and digested, besides being supported by

    Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Margaret E. Winslow

  • The morality of the early mill-girls, again, was practically stainless, and, strict as the rules of conduct were in the factories, these were really dead letters, so high was the standard of behavior set and sustained by the mill-hands themselves.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various

  • There was a tired hopelessness about them, such as was never seen among the early mill-girls.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various

  • Her Bertie, who was every bit as good as the city young ladies, her cousins, was not to go to an empty house and be nursed with a lot of common mill-girls.

    Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Margaret E. Winslow

  • The mill-girls, although they had generally had fair common-school advantages before they commenced work, were, of course, from that time totally deprived of them.

    Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Margaret E. Winslow

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