British Chimney Sweeps

British Chimney Sweeps
Author: Benita Cullingford
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2001
Genre: Chimney sweeps
ISBN: 1566633451

The art and science of chimney sweeping are examined in detailed for the first time in this lively and fascinating book.

Charlie the Chimneysweep and Sooty

Charlie the Chimneysweep and Sooty
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 47
Release: 1983
Genre: Chimney sweeps
ISBN: 9780907159414

Father Christmas pays a surprise visit to Charlie, an orphaned chimneysweep, and gives him presents which lead to a permanent home for Charlie and his cat, Sooty.

The Water-babies

The Water-babies
Author: Charles Kingsley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1895
Genre: Chimney sweeps
ISBN:

A Victorian tale in which Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, is stolen by fairies and turned into a water-baby.

The Chimney Sweep's Ransom

The Chimney Sweep's Ransom
Author: Dave Jackson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1992
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781556612688

A young English boy is sold to be trained as a chimney sweep and is rescued by his brother with the help of John Wesley. Ages 8-12.

Songs of Innocence

Songs of Innocence
Author: William Blake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 35
Release: 1789
Genre: Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN:

Death of a Chimney Sweep

Death of a Chimney Sweep
Author: M. C. Beaton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2014-07-02
Genre: FICTION
ISBN: 9781609416669

In the isolated villages of northern Scotland, the residents rely on chimney sweep Pete Ray. After Police Constable Hamish Macbeth finds a dead body stuffed inside a chimney, the entire town of Lochdubh suspects Pete. Then Pete's body is found on the Scottish moors, and the mystery deepens.

Sweep

Sweep
Author: Jonathan Auxier
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1683354060

For nearly a century, Victorian London relied on “climbing boys”—orphans owned by chimney sweeps—to clean flues and protect homes from fire. The work was hard, thankless, and brutally dangerous. Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived—and a girl. With her wits and will, she’s managed to beat the deadly odds time and time again. But when Nan gets stuck in a deadly chimney fire, she fears her time has come. Instead, she wakes to find herself in an abandoned attic. And she is not alone. Huddled in the corner is a mysterious creature—a golem—made from ash and coal. This is the creature that saved her from the fire. Sweep is the story of a girl and her monster. Together, these two outcasts carve out a life—saving one another in the process. By one of today’s most powerful storytellers, Sweep is a heartrending adventure about the everlasting gifts of friendship and hope.

The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
Author: Barbara Vine
Publisher: Viking Books
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

An unforgettable tale of mystery and obsession by Barbara Vine (pseudonym of Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement) This is the utterly absorbing story of best-selling novelist Gerald Candless, whose sudden death from a heart attack leaves behind a wife and two doting daughters. To sort through her grief, one of his daughters, Sarah, decides to write a biography of her internationally celebrated father. Within hours of beginning her research, Sarah comes across the first of what will be many shocking revelations. As her life is slowly torn apart, a terrible logic finally emerges to explain her mother's remoteness, her father's need to continually reinvent himself in his work, and a long-forgotten London murder.

Infants of the Brush: A Chimney Sweep's Story

Infants of the Brush: A Chimney Sweep's Story
Author: A. M. Watson
Publisher: Red Acre Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2017-11-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780999512203

Infants of the Brush is historical fiction based on Armory v. Delamirie, a 1700s court case before the King's Bench against Paul de Lamerie, a silversmith. In the vein of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Infants of the Brush is set in a time when London society ignored the ills of child labor. Unlike the gleeful chimney sweeps portrayed in Mary Poppins, climbing boys were forced up burning flues to dislodge harmful soot and coal ash. Egan Whitcombe is just six years old when he is sold to Master Armory for a few coins that his family desperately needs. As one of Master Armory's eight broomers, Egan quickly learns that his life depends on absolute obedience and the coins he earns. Pitt, the leader of Master Armory's broomers, teaches Egan to sweep chimneys and negotiate for scraps of bread. Broken and starving, the boys discover friendship as they struggle to save five guineas, the cost of a broomer's independence.