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Robert Blincoe Robert Blincoe Child Laborers

Robert Blincoe was a [|child laborer] who worked in St. Pancras Workhouse. He and several other boys had to sleep in beds that looked like cribs. They slept two boys to one bed. Some of the things Blincoe had to do at the factory was to pick the cotton up from the machines that fell and, a roving winder. The article was not an interview. It was written because the author John Brown wrote an article about child laborers, and when he interviewed Blincoe he decided that he wanted to write his biography. Work Cited: // Was the Remarkable Robert Blincoe The Real Oliver Twist? : News : The University of Melbourne //. Photograph. // Latest News : News : The University of Melbourne //. By John Waller. 20 Mar. 2006. Web. 11 Mar. 2011. .  // Robert Blincoe in His Prime //. Photograph. // The Real Oliver Twist: A Life That Illuminates an Age //. The Sydney Morning Herald, 2006. Web. 13 Mar. 2011. .