Factory Lives: Four Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiographies
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ISBN: 1551112728
Author: James R. Simmons, Jr.
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Factory Lives contains four works of great importance in the field of nineteenth-century working-class autobiography: John Browns A Memoir of Robert Blincoe; William Dodds A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd; Ellen Johnstons Autobiography; and James Myless Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy.This Broadview edition also includes a remarkably rich selection of historical documents that provide context for these works. Appendices include contemporary responses to the autobiographies, debates on factory legislation, transcripts of testimony given before parliamentary committees on child labour, and excerpts from literary works on factory life by Harriet Martineau, Frances Trollope, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others.
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