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Life in the Iron-Mills

Or, The Korl Woman

by Rebecca Harding Davis

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Smoke settles over houses, boats and faces in the industrial town where Hugh Wolfe tends an iron furnace. Rebecca Harding Davis begins this 1861 work of fiction with a narrator looking out on the mills and recalling the family who once occupied the house. Hugh, his father and their cousin Deborah live in damp cellar rooms; Deborah returns from work at a cotton mill to a meal of cold potatoes.

The physical setting gives shape to the book's concern with lives narrowed by exhausting labour. Hugh longs for knowledge, beauty and a chance to help the workers around him, yet his hopes collide with the daily return to the furnace. Deborah shares the hardship and tries to bring him home through the cold fog. Readers interested in fiction about working lives will find a close examination of poverty, frustrated ambition and the distance between comfortable observers and the people they judge.

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Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis pioneered American literary realism through novels and journalism examining industrial labor, poverty, gender, and moral choice. Margret Howth, a Story of To-day was her first novel, published in 1862 after the success of her influential novella Life in the Iron-Mills.

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Pages
29
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English
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