Eliza Cook was an English author and poet associated with the Chartist movement. She was a proponent of political freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, something she called "levelling up." This made her hugely popular with the working class public in both England and America. Wikipedia
“I love it, I love it, and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?”
The old Arm-Chair, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Better build schoolrooms for "the boy"
Than cells and gibbets for "the man."”
A Song for ragged Schools, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When memory plays an old tune on the heart!”
Old Dobbin, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!”
Thomas Hood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
