# Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography

By Charles Kingsley.

"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? (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Unknown role: Thomas Hughes
- Subjects: Working class -- Fiction; England -- Fiction; Bildungsromans; Young men -- Fiction; Christian fiction; Poets -- Fiction; Tailors -- Fiction; Labor movement -- Fiction

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