Life in the Iron Mills
Author: first_name: Rebecca Harding
last_name: Davis
Language: English
Year: 1861

This 1861 novella was the first published work by Rebecca Harding Davis:  writer, social reformer, and pioneer of literary realism.  It tells the story of Hugh Wolfe, a Welsh laborer in an iron mill who is also a talented sculptor, and of Deborah, the hunchbacked woman who unrequitedly loves him. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)