Robert Tressell blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: Robert Noonan 1870-1911 Author as Robert Tressell of "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" The first working-class novel written in this house 1906 - 1910

Robert Tressell, born Robert Noonan, was a socialist writer whose seminal work, "The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists," offers a scathing critique of early 20th-century English society and is considered one of the most important works of working-class literature in Britain.