{"product_id":"factory-lives-four-nineteenth-century-working-class-autobiographies-9781551112725","title":"Factory Lives: Four Nineteenth-Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFactory Lives\u003c\/em\u003e contains four works of great importance in the field of nineteenth-century working-class autobiography: John Brown’s \u003cem\u003eA Memoir of Robert Blincoe\u003c\/em\u003e; William Dodd’s \u003cem\u003eA Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd\u003c\/em\u003e; Ellen Johnston’s “Autobiography”; and James Myles’s \u003cem\u003eChapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Broadview edition also includes a remarkably rich selection of historical documents that provide context for these works.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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFactory Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful and wonderfully affordable resource for anyone who teaches British nineteenth-century literature, culture, or history. The text does a real service by providing a representative sampling of working-class autobiographies from this period. The engagingly learned introduction by Janice Carlisle provides a rich and wide-ranging contextualization that will help teachers and students approach these texts from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary angles. I cannot imagine teaching a course on the Condition of England novel without including this collection on my reading list.\" - Elaine Hadley, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This eye-opening edition of working-class autobiographies written by men and women who labored in the harsh industrial system of Victorian Britain is a useful addition to our understanding of the era's full human costs in terms of physical and psychological suffering. It is an engaging emotional experience to read these carefully selected accounts of individuals working long hours in the mills and factories. The collection of official reports and legislative documents that attempted to bring social reforms places these autobiographies in their full and proper historical and political contexts. An added bonus of the edition is the inclusion of a range of contemporary poetry and fiction on industrial life.\" - William B. Thesing, University of South Carolina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction, \u003cem\u003eJanice Carlisle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSignificant Nineteenth-Century Factory Legislationand Factory Literature: A Brief Chronology\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text, \u003cem\u003eElizabeth Reed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Brown, \u003cem\u003eA Memoir of Robert Blincoe, An Orphan Boy\u003c\/em\u003e (1832)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Dodd, \u003cem\u003eA Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd, A Factory Cripple.Written by Himself\u003c\/em\u003e (1841)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Myles, \u003cem\u003eChapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy\u003c\/em\u003e (1850)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen Johnston, “Autobiography of Ellen Johnston, ‘The Factory Girl’” (1867) and “Autobiography” (1869)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Contemporary Perspectives on \u003cem\u003eA Memoir of Robert Blincoe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Correspondent to \u003cem\u003eThe Lion\u003c\/em\u003e, “Confirmation of the Memoir of Robert Blincoe” (14 March 1828)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Friend at Manchester, “Confirmation of Blincoe’s Printed Memoir By Himself” (28 March 1828)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobert Blincoe,Testimony before the 1833 Royal Commission on the Employment of Children in Factories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubstantive Changes in Doherty’s 1832 Edition of the \u003cem\u003eMemoir\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix B: Contemporary Perspectives on William Dodd’s \u003cem\u003eNarrative \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLord Ashley and John Bright, from the debate of 15 March 1844, House of Commons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilliam Dodd, from \u003cem\u003eThe Laboring Classes of England\u003c\/em\u003e (1847)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix C: Contemporary Perspectives on Myles’s \u003cem\u003eChapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJames Myles, from \u003cem\u003eRambles in Forfarshire\u003c\/em\u003e (1850)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilliam Norrie, from \u003cem\u003eDundee Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/em\u003e (1873): James Myles, Robert Nicoll, and William Jackson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix D: Contemporary Perspectives on Johnston’s “Autobiography”: Selected Poems from \u003cem\u003eAutobiography, Poems and Songs of Ellen Johnston\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003eThe “Factory Girl”\u003c\/em\u003e (1867 and 1869)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The Working Man”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Kennedy’s Dear Mill”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“An Address to Napiers’ Dockyard”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Lord Raglan’s Address to the Allied Armies”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The Last Sark”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“To my Aunt Phemie”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“An Address to Nature on its Cruelty”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Lines to Mr James Dorward”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Lines by Edith to the Factory Girl”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The Factory Girl’s Reply to ‘Lines by Edith’”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The Factory Girl’s Reply to Edith”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Lines to Mr G.D. Russell”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The Last Lay of ‘The Factory Girl’”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix E: Contemporary Documents: Parliamentary Testimony as Autobiography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharles Aberdeen,Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of Children in Factories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElizabeth Bentley,Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of Children in Factories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix F: Factory Life: Contemporary Views\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHarriet Martineau, from \u003cem\u003eA Manchester Strike\u003c\/em\u003e (1832)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndrew Ure, from \u003cem\u003eThe Philosophy of Manufactures\u003c\/em\u003e(1835)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Young Folks of the Factory\u003c\/em\u003e (1840)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrances Trollope, from \u003cem\u003eMichael Armstrong\u003c\/em\u003e (1840)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Cry of the Children”(1843)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eR. Arthur Arnold, from \u003cem\u003eThe History of the Cotton Famine\u003c\/em\u003e(1864)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix G: Factory Legislation: Contemporary Views\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRichard Oastler, “The White Slaves of Yorkshire” (1830)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCaroline Norton, \u003cem\u003eA Voice from the Factories\u003c\/em\u003e (1836)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Fielden, from \u003cem\u003eThe Curse of the Factory System\u003c\/em\u003e(1836)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobert Hyde Greg, from \u003cem\u003eThe Factory Question and the “Ten Hours Bill\u003c\/em\u003e” (1837)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrances Trollope, from \u003cem\u003eMichael Armstrong\u003c\/em\u003e (1840)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharlotte Elizabeth Tonna, from \u003cem\u003eHelen Fleetwood\u003c\/em\u003e (1841)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041303396695,"sku":"9781551112725","price":22.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781551112725.jpg?v=1750949733","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/factory-lives-four-nineteenth-century-working-class-autobiographies-9781551112725","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}