Women and Children of the Mills: An Annotated Guide to Nineteenth-Century American Textile Factory Literature (Bibliographies and Indexes in American Literature)
This annotated bibliography of 19th-century literature by and about American textile factory workers examines 457 texts, including novels, short fiction, poetry, drama, narratives, and children's literature, and offers new insights into 19th-century working-class culture. The textile industry was the premier and largest 19th-century industry in the United States. The texts, drawn from a variety of publications, such as workers' periodicals, mainstream publishers' monographs, newspapers,...
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An annotated bibliography of literature, which focuses on issues about women and children and includes 450 texts published from 1787 to 1900 by and about American textile factory workers.BooknewsComprises 457 examples of poetry, songs, stories, novels, drama, narratives, and children's literature, some 36 percent of which were probably or definitely written by mill workers between 1787 and 1900. Drawn from English-language publications, all writings are ostensibly set in the U.S. and/or written by Americans. Entries are alphabetically arranged within each of 14 topics (such as women leaving home, romances and mysteries, working children, speaking out against oppression, strikes, etc.), and they include as many as possible of the following elements: bibliographic citation, text length, brief author identification, genre and formal features, setting, synopsis, noteworthy features of content, place of publication, and text availability. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
PrefaceAcknowledgments1Women Leaving Home: Work, Independence, Women's Rights12Minds among the Spindles: Workers' Education and Writing313Offerings and Voices: Periodicals of Women's Work434Only a Factory Worker: Representing Class575Means of Escape: Romances and Mysteries796Blighted and Deceived: Dangerous Desires and Women's Wrongs1077Scenes of Factory Village Life1338Working Children1559Wondrous Machines: Responses to Technology17310Occupational Hazards: Stress, Disease, Accidents, Fires18311Laborers' Remonstrances: Speaking Out against Oppression20512Strikes and Other Organized Protest22913Anti-Strike Fiction24314Charity and Reform255Bibliography277App. IAnnual Chronology of Factory Literature by Title, with Author, Genre, and Entry Number283App. IINames and Noms de Plume of the Writers in The Lowell Offering, Compiled and Corrected by Harriet Hanson Robinson, September 1902299App. IIINonfiction Texts by and about Nineteenth-Century Textile Factory Workers301App. IVTitles Unavailable for Examination305Index307
\ BooknewsComprises 457 examples of poetry, songs, stories, novels, drama, narratives, and children's literature, some 36 percent of which were probably or definitely written by mill workers between 1787 and 1900. Drawn from English-language publications, all writings are ostensibly set in the U.S. and/or written by Americans. Entries are alphabetically arranged within each of 14 topics such as women leaving home, romances and mysteries, working children, speaking out against oppression, strikes, etc., and they include as many as possible of the following elements: bibliographic citation, text length, brief author identification, genre and formal features, setting, synopsis, noteworthy features of content, place of publication, and text availability. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR booknews.com\ \
