Factory lives : four nineteenth-century working-class autobiographies
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Factory lives : four nineteenth-century working-class autobiographies
（Nineteenth-century British autobiographies / series editors, Janice Carlisle and Linda Peterson ; textual editor, Elizabeth Reed）
Broadview Press, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 492-496)
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Description
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This Broadview edition also includes a remarkably rich selection of historical documents that provide context for these works.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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Janice Carlisle
Significant Nineteenth-Century Factory Legislationand Factory Literature: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text, Elizabeth Reed
John Brown, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, An Orphan Boy (1832)
William Dodd, A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd, A Factory Cripple.Written by Himself (1841)
James Myles, Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy (1850)
Ellen Johnston, "Autobiography of Ellen Johnston, 'The Factory Girl'" (1867) and "Autobiography" (1869)
Appendix A: Contemporary Perspectives on A Memoir of Robert Blincoe
A Correspondent to The Lion, "Confirmation of the Memoir of Robert Blincoe" (14 March 1828)
A Friend at Manchester, "Confirmation of Blincoe's Printed Memoir By Himself" (28 March 1828)
Robert Blincoe,Testimony before the 1833 Royal Commission on the Employment of Children in Factories
Substantive Changes in Doherty's 1832 Edition of the Memoir
Appendix B: Contemporary Perspectives on William Dodd's Narrative
Lord Ashley and John Bright, from the debate of 15 March 1844, House of Commons
William Dodd, from The Laboring Classes of England (1847)
Appendix C: Contemporary Perspectives on Myles's Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy
James Myles, from Rambles in Forfarshire (1850)
William Norrie, from Dundee Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century (1873): James Myles, Robert Nicoll, and William Jackson
Appendix D: Contemporary Perspectives on Johnston's "Autobiography": Selected Poems from Autobiography, Poems and Songs of Ellen Johnston,The "Factory Girl" (1867 and 1869)
"The Working Man"
"Kennedy's Dear Mill"
"An Address to Napiers' Dockyard"
"Lord Raglan's Address to the Allied Armies"
"The Last Sark"
"To my Aunt Phemie"
"An Address to Nature on its Cruelty"
"Lines to Mr James Dorward"
"Lines by Edith to the Factory Girl"
"The Factory Girl's Reply to 'Lines by Edith'"
"The Factory Girl's Reply to Edith"
"Lines to Mr G.D. Russell"
"The Last Lay of 'The Factory Girl'"
Appendix E: Contemporary Documents: Parliamentary Testimony as Autobiography
Charles Aberdeen,Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of Children in Factories
Elizabeth Bentley,Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of Children in Factories
Appendix F: Factory Life: Contemporary Views
Harriet Martineau, from A Manchester Strike (1832)
Andrew Ure, from The Philosophy of Manufactures(1835)
From The Young Folks of the Factory (1840)
Frances Trollope, from Michael Armstrong (1840)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "The Cry of the Children"(1843)
R. Arthur Arnold, from The History of the Cotton Famine(1864)
Appendix G: Factory Legislation: Contemporary Views
Richard Oastler, "The White Slaves of Yorkshire" (1830)
Caroline Norton, A Voice from the Factories (1836)
John Fielden, from The Curse of the Factory System(1836)
Robert Hyde Greg, from The Factory Question and the "Ten Hours Bill" (1837)
Frances Trollope, from Michael Armstrong (1840)
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, from Helen Fleetwood (1841)
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