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  • Through the mill: The life of a mill-boy

    Enriched edition. A Mill-Worker's Journey Through Industrial Life

    by Frederic Kenyon Brown, Everett Cole ...
    In 'Through the Mill: The Life of a Mill-Boy,' Frederic Kenyon Brown crafts a poignant narrative that chronicles the trials and triumphs of a young boy growing up amid the harsh realities of mill work in the early industrial age. Through rich, evocative prose, Brown immerses readers in the sights and sounds of the mill, capturing both the mechanization of labor and the intimate lives of its ... Read more

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  • Through the school: The experiences of a mill boy in securing an education

    by Frederic Kenyon Brown ...
    As the story unfolds, readers witness the boy’s dedication to learning, his struggles to attend school amidst the demands of his job, and his perseverance in acquiring an education. The book highlights the importance of self-discipline, ambition, and the transformative power of education, as the boy navigates the harsh realities of factory life while trying to better himself through study.The ... Read more

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  • Through the mill: The life of a mill-boy

    by Frederic Kenyon Brown ...
    "Through the Mill: The Life of a Mill-Boy" by Frederic Kenyon Brown is a vivid memoir that captures the essence of growing up in a mill town. The narrative unfolds through the eyes of a young boy, detailing his experiences and the challenges faced in a working-class environment. Brown's storytelling is rich with imagery, allowing readers to immerse themselves in the sights and sounds of the mill, ... Read more

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  • Children at Work: 4 Classic Books on Child Labor

    Classic Exposés and Stories of Factory Toil, Urban Poverty, and Progressive Child-Welfare Reform

    by Frederic Kenyon Brown, R. R. Lutz, Alphonse Daudet, John Spargo ...
    Children at Work gathers four classic texts that confront child labor as social fact, moral crisis, and literary subject. Moving among documentary observation, reformist argument, social analysis, and imaginative prose, the volume reveals how childhood became a contested category in the industrial age. Its selections register the factory, workshop, street, and household as sites where economic ... Read more

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  • Through the school: The experiences of a mill boy in securing an education

    A Mill Boy's Pursuit of Educational Triumph

    by Frederic Kenyon Brown ...
    In "Through the School: The Experiences of a Mill Boy in Securing an Education," Frederic Kenyon Brown narrates the poignant journey of a young boy navigating the complexities of education amidst the gritty backdrop of a mill town. The book is steeped in rich, evocative language, offering a window into the emotional and social challenges faced by working-class families during the late 19th century ... Read more

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  • The Ultimate Textile Library: 23 Essential Reads

    Weaving, Dyeing, Design, and the Cultural History of Cloth

    by John T. Taylor, T. F. Bell, Kate Heintz Watson, William H. Dooley, Peter Kilgour, Thomas Woodhouse, Washington Matthews, William Henry Holmes, Candace Wheeler, Grace Rogers Cooper, Broadus Mitchell, Arnold Wolfensberger, H. D. Buck, Frederic Kenyon Brown, William M.A. Davis, Samuel Brown, Thomas Packer, Margaret Smith Furry, H. William Nelson, Lila M. O'Neale, A. C. Whitford, Clinton G. Gilroy ...
    The Ultimate Textile Library: 23 Essential Reads gathers a capacious body of writing on cloth, dress, manufacture, ornament, and material culture. Ranging from technical instruction and historical description to criticism, design theory, ethnographic observation, and social analysis, the volume reveals textiles as both crafted objects and records of human exchange. Its juxtaposition of studies of ... Read more

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  • Through The Mill

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Frederic Kenyon Brown ...
    Through the Mill is a frank, often comic autobiography of a mill-boy whose life is shaped by orphanhood, poverty, factory discipline, and stubborn self-invention. Set in northern England and later in the harsh world of industrial labor, it follows a child's passage from a bustling fish shop and a lovable, unreliable Uncle Stanwood into the grinding routine of mill work, where hardship, humor, and ... Read more

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  • Through The School

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Frederic Kenyon Brown ...
    Through the School follows a poor mill boy's hard-won rise toward education in a candid, funny, and deeply earnest autobiographical memoir. Beginning with only a few dollars, little formal schooling, and a heart set on the ministry, the young narrator stumbles into a university world of confident classmates, stern authorities, and intimidating expectations, discovering that learning is as much a ... Read more

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    Or, At the Cross-Roads

    by Annie F. Johnston ...
    A popular children's author who created several juvenile fiction series at the turn of the twentieth century, Annie Fellows Johnston is best remembered for the Little Colonel books. The charming novel Asa Holmes recounts the remarkable life story of one of the denizens of that pillar of rural life, the country store. ... Read more

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  • The Woman Who Toils

    Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls

    by Marie Van Vorst, John Mrs. Van Vorst ...
    The Woman Who Toils is a compelling anthology that offers a profound exploration of early 20th-century labor dynamics through the nuanced lens of gender. This collection encapsulates a range of literary styles, from vivid narrative accounts to incisive social critiques, painting a vivid tableau of women's struggles in the workforce. The anthology captures the stark realities of female laborers, ... Read more

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  • Who Is Mark Twain?

    by Mark Twain ...
    Twenty-six wickedly funny, thought-provoking essays by the celebrated American author—"Twain's wit and lethally precise powers of description are on full display" (NPR)."More than 100 years after [Twain] wrote these stories, they remain not only remarkably funny but remarkably modern. . . . Ninety-nine years after his death, Twain still manages to get the last laugh." — Vanity Fair"You had better ... Read more

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  • How the Other Half Lives

    by Jacob A. Riis ...
    During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who himself could not originally find much work, hoped to expose the squalor of the 19th-century Lower East Side of Manhattan. After a successful career as a police reporter, he decided to publish a photojournal documenting ... Read more

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