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Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis

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Author Biography

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Biography of Rebecca (Blaine) Harding Davis
7121 words, approx. 23.7 pages
Rebecca Harding Davis broke new ground as an American fiction writer and journalist. When her novella Life in the Iron Mills appeared in the April 1861 edition of The Atlantic Monthly, it startled readers with its depiction of the grim lives of the worki...
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Biography of Rebecca (Blaine) Harding Davis
2491 words, approx. 8.3 pages
Rebecca Harding Davis, who came to maturity during the Civil War, wrote about the effects of that war on those who awaited its outcome at home. An astute and imaginative observer, she is noted for her skill in developing character and motivation, but she...


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Life in the Iron Mills Information
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"Life in the Iron Mills" is a short story by Rebecca Harding Davis set in the factory world of nineteenth century Wheeling, Virginia, now Wheeling, West Virginia. It was her first published work, and it appeared anonymously in April 1861 in the Atlantic...


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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
The censored and uncensored literary lives of Life in the Iron-Mills.(From the Archives)
01/01/2003: 9,616 words, approx. 32 pages
"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto me." Mitchell, quoting Jesus (Matt. 25.36; Davis Life in the Iron-Mills) Rebecca Blaine Harding (not yet Davis) must have been a bit dismayed...
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Legacy
The Censored and Uncensored Literary Lives of Life in the Iron-Mills
04/30/2003: 9,605 words, approx. 32 pages
Rebecca Blaine Harding (not yet Davis) must have been a bit dismayed when she read her first published story, Life in the Iron-Mills,(1) in its April 1861 Atlantic Monthly form. An entire paragraph had been excised from the manuscript (holograph) she had submitted in...
 


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Critical Essay by Sheila Hassell Hughes
10,253 words, approx. 34 pages
In the following essay, Hughes maintains that “Life in the Iron Mills” should be read as a religious parable and goes on to analyze the text in the context of liberation.
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Critical Essay by Sharon M. Harris
7,777 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Harris analyzes the complex narrative structure of “Life in the Iron Mills” in terms of the movement from romanticism to realism, concluding that the story rejects transcendentalism and is a work of naturalism.
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Critical Essay by William H. Shurr
6,771 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following essay, Shurr contends that the narrator of “Life in the Iron Mills” is the character Mitchell, and that the story can be best understood as a conversion narrative.
 


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