About Thomas Wright
Lived 1839 – 1909 (aged 69). Thomas Wright was a writer.
Thomas Wright (12 April 1839 – 19 February 1909) was an English social commentator.
He was the son of a blacksmith who became a tramping worker, before finding employment as a mutual labourer in an engineering firm. He studied on his own, and in 1872 became one of the first national school-board visitors. He wrote widely on the world of the working man into which he had been born.
Wright's essays on social commentary were published in three volumes: Some Habits and Customs of the Working Classes (1867), The Great Unwashed (1868), and Our New Masters (1873).
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English social commentator (1839–1909)
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Thomas Wright was born on 12 April 1839.
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Thomas Wright died on 19 February 1909.
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Thomas Wright was a writer.
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