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Article: Learning and earning: schooling, juvenile employment, and the early life course in late nineteenth-century New Haven.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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Thomas Gradgrind took no heed of ... [the circus] of course, but passed on as a practical man ought to pass on, either brushing the noisy insects from his thoughts, or conveying them to the House of Correction. But, the turning of the road took him by the back of the booth, and at the back of the booth a number of children were congregated in a number of stealthy attitudes, striving to peep in at the hidden glories of the place.
This brought him to a stop. "Now to think of these vagabonds," said he, "attracting the young rabble from a model school...." Phenomenon almost incredible though distinctly seen, what did he then behold but his own metallurgical Louisa ...