Forget that men and women once had a conscience and did not think money should rule our lives.<\/p>\n
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The Song of the Shirt<\/b>” is a poem written by\u00a0Thomas Hood<\/a>\u00a0in 1843.<\/p>\n It was written in honour of a Mrs. Biddell, a widow and\u00a0seamstress<\/a>\u00a0living in wretched conditions. In what was, at that time, common practice, Mrs. Biddell sewed trousers and shirts in her home using materials supplied to her by her employer for which she was forced to give a\u00a0\u00a3<\/a>2 deposit\u2014a significant sum. In a desperate attempt to feed her starving infants, Mrs. Biddell pawned the clothing she had made, accruing a debt she could not pay. Mrs. Biddell, whose first name has not been recorded, was sent to a\u00a0workhouse<\/a>, and her ultimate fate is not known; however, her story became a catalyst for those who actively opposed the wretched conditions of England’s\u00a0working poor<\/a>, who often spent seven days a week labouring under inhumane conditions, barely managing to survive and with no prospect for relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Forget that men and women once had a conscience and did not think money should rule our lives. The Song of the Shirt” is a poem written by\u00a0Thomas Hood\u00a0in 1843. It was written in honour of a Mrs. Biddell, a widow and\u00a0seamstress\u00a0living in wretched conditions. In what was, at that time, common practice, Mrs….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1167,835],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-the-song-of-the-shirt","tag-thomas-hood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}