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- 1861
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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.
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Book facts
- Author
- Rebecca Harding Davis
- First published
- 1861
- Reading time
- About 70 minutes
- Pages
- 29
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Elizabeth Klett