Title: Life in the iron mills
First published: 1861
Description: This definitive edition reprints the text of Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron-Mills together with a broad selection of historical and cultural documents that open up the novella to the consideration of a range social and cultural issues vital to Davis's nineteenth century. Special attention is given to nineteenth-century American discussions of work and social class, moral and social reform, the development of American art and industry, and the position of the woman writer.
Subjects: Fiction, Sources, Women iron and steel workers, Travailleuses du fer et de l'acier, Romans, nouvelles, Feminism, United states, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Iron and steel workers, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Fiction, general
Places: United States