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In Victorian times, many children had to work to earn money for their family. One factory employed young girls to make matches, but the chemical they used made them very ill and many died. One woman decided to stand up for these girls, and her protest took her all the way to the Houses of Parliament in London.
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Match Girls, Juliet Kerrigan, Fred Blunt
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- Released
- 2013
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- Title
- Match Girls
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Juliet Kerrigan, Fred Blunt
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0007498659
- ISBN13
- 9780007498659
- Category
- Fairy tales / Children’s books
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- In Victorian times, many children had to work to earn money for their family. One factory employed young girls to make matches, but the chemical they used made them very ill and many died. One woman decided to stand up for these girls, and her protest took her all the way to the Houses of Parliament in London.