Factory Lives: Four Nineteenth-Century Working-Class AutobiographiesJames R. Simmons, Jr Factory Lives contains four works of great importance in the field of nineteenth-century working-class autobiography: John Brown’s A Memoir of Robert Blincoe; William Dodd’s A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd; Ellen Johnston’s “Autobiography”; and James Myles’s 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 This Broadview edition also includes a remarkably rich selection of historical documents that provide context for these works.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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... Blincoe , An Orphan Boy ( 1832 ) 87 William Dodd , A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd , A ... Blincoe's Printed Memoir By Himself " ( 28 March 1828 ) 326 3. Robert Blincoe , Testimony before the 1833 Royal ...
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Contents
Acknowledgements | 7 |
Significant NineteenthCentury Factory Legislation | 77 |
William Dodd A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings | 181 |
Ellen Johnston Autobiography of Ellen Johnston The Factory | 301 |
Contemporary Perspectives on A Memoir of Robert | 325 |
Contemporary Perspectives on Myless Chapters | 353 |
Contemporary Perspectives on Johnstons Autobi | 366 |
An Address to Nature on its Cruelty | 377 |
The Factory Girls Reply to Edith | 384 |
Contemporary Documents Parliamentary Testi | 391 |
Elizabeth Bentley Testimony before the 1832 Committee | 400 |
Robert Hyde Greg from The Factory Question and the Ten | 470 |
Frances Trollope from Michael Armstrong 1840 | 476 |
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna from Helen Fleetwood 1841 | 483 |
Select Bibliography | 492 |
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Factory Lives: Four Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiographies James R. Simmons, Jr Limited preview - 2007 |