Factory Lives: Four Nineteenth-Century Working-Class AutobiographiesJames R. Simmons, Jr Broadview Press, 2007年4月10日 - 496 頁 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 This Broadview edition also includes a remarkably rich selection of historical documents that provide context for these works.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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Acknowledgements | 7 |
Significant NineteenthCentury Factory Legislation | 77 |
John Brown A Memoir of Robert Blincoe An Orphan | 181 |
James Myles Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory | 301 |
Contemporary Perspectives on A Memoir of Robert | 325 |
Contemporary Perspectives on William Dodds Nar | 334 |
Contemporary Perspectives on Myless Chapters | 353 |
Contemporary Perspectives on Johnstons Autobi | 366 |
The Factory Girls Reply to Lines by Edith | 382 |
The Last Lay of The Factory Girl | 389 |
Factory Life Contemporary Views | 404 |
Factory Legislation Contemporary Views | 439 |
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