Life in the Iron Mills

And Other Stories

By: Rebecca Harding Davis, Tillie Olsen (Editor), Kim Kelly (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 18 August 2020 | Edition Number 2

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256 Pages

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Originally published in 1861 in the Atlantic Monthly, "Life in the Iron Mills" remains a classic of proletarian literature that paints a bleak and incisive portrait of nineteenth-century industrial America. Rebecca Harding Davis was one of the first writers to depict a working class that was exploited and exhausted as capitalism's mills and factories destroyed both the natural environment and the human spirit.

Davis's work was first recovered in the 1970s by the Feminist Press and writer Tillie Olsen, and then expanded in the 1980s to be the most comprehensive collection of her work to date. This reissued edition includes an updated critical introduction, and shares a uniquely prescient capitalist critique with a new generation.

Industry Reviews

"You must read this book and let your heart be broken." -New York Times Book Review

"One of the earliest recognitions in American literature of the existence of the very poor." -National Observer

"An American classic that foreshadowed the naturalist technique of later nineteenth-century writers." -San Francisco Chronicle

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