ABSTRACT
Perhaps by Mrs Jane Sinnett, who regularly did the Westminster’s ‘Belles Lettres’ section at this time. She translated many works, mainly of Roman Catholic interest, and wrote some stories. The ‘fearful struggle’ she mentions was the great strike in the cotton-trade, centred on Preston, during the winter of 1853–4: see Dickens’s article ‘On Strike’, Household Words, 11 February 1854, viii, 553–9.
