By Chris Sunde; original uploader was Christopher Sunde at en.wikipedia. [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsInformation with the photo on Wikimedia Commons and pertinent to our Thursday Three Hundred story post tomorrow: “Frame-breakers, or Luddites, smashing a loom. Machine-breaking was criminalized by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as early as 1721, the penalty being penal transportation, but as a result of continued opposition to mechanisation the Frame-Breaking Act 1812 made the death penalty available.”
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“Nothing is certain just yet, but the whispers I heard today were that it could happen.” He shrugged. “There is also more talk of unrest at the mills, and Father expects it to get worse before it gets better…”
Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).
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2 thoughts on “Wordless Wednesday: Frame Breaking (1812)”
I know this was a hard and difficult time in England’s history. Mr. Bingley would probably feel it and anyone with connections to trade. I can’t wait to see the full excerpt. Thanks for sharing the picture. It makes the connection more real.
You’re welcome! It was a very hard time for them. Those with ties to trade would definitely feel it as well as those who might be called upon to put a stop to any such behavior and to see the perpetrators punished. Our story is taking place right around the time when the Frame-Breaking Act 1812 was about to be passed by government.
I know this was a hard and difficult time in England’s history. Mr. Bingley would probably feel it and anyone with connections to trade. I can’t wait to see the full excerpt. Thanks for sharing the picture. It makes the connection more real.
You’re welcome! It was a very hard time for them. Those with ties to trade would definitely feel it as well as those who might be called upon to put a stop to any such behavior and to see the perpetrators punished. Our story is taking place right around the time when the Frame-Breaking Act 1812 was about to be passed by government.