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The women and girls involved in boxing up the matches had to pay the boys who brought them the frames from the drying ovens and had to supply their own glue and brushes. One girl who dropped a tray of matches was fined 6 d. [26] [27] Bryant & May were aware of phossy jaw. If a worker complained of having toothache, they were told to have the ...
"The Little Match Girl" (Danish: Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The little girl with the matchsticks") is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child's dreams and hope, was first published in 1845.
Twelve women were elected to the committee, including Chapman, who was subsequently made President. [ 2 ] [ 10 ] It was the largest female union in the country. [ 11 ] Chapman was elected as the Union's first representative to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and was among those who attended the 1888 International Trades Union Congress in ...
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[19] Lovia Gyarkye of The Hollywood Reporter called it "a serviceable sequel". Gyarkye praises the meticulous production and costume design but is critical of the narrative as "The 1888 match girl strike, which was a process of community building, a focused effort on we, gets repackaged as a lesson in one voice leading the masses." [20]
Matchstick Men (2003) ... and editing were the perfect fit for Khouri’s script. With Geena Davis and Susan Surandon locked down for the leads—two women whose girls trip is detoured by a ...
Patricia Dorothy Douglas (March 5, 1917 – November 11, 2003) was a dancer and movie extra. Douglas was the subject of the documentary Girl 27 documenting her 1937 rape by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer salesman David Ross and the aftermath.
The Matchmakers' Union (founded as The Union of Women Matchmakers) [1] was a British trade union formed in 1888 following the successful Matchgirls' strike. [2] [3] On its creation, it was the largest union of women and girls in the country, [4] and inspired a wave of collective organising among industrial workers.