Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet
- First published
- 1850
- Reading level
- Plain English
- Price
- Free
About the book
"Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography" by Charles Kingsley is a novel published in 1850. Written in sympathy with the Chartist movement, it follows a young tailor-boy with poetic ambitions beyond his working-class station. The novel exposes social injustices faced by clothing workers and agricultural laborers while chronicling Alton's passionate involvement in working-class reform. Through intense patriotism, vain struggles for love, and righteous indignation, he fights for change—but at what cost to his fragile spirit?
- Working class
- England
- Bildungsromans
- Young men
- Christian fiction
- Poets
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #8374. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet on Wikipedia.
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