Factory Lives: Four Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiographies (1828-1850) Book

Acknowledgments

Introduction, Janice Carlisle

Significant Nineteenth-Century Factory Legislation and Factory Literature: A Brief Chronology

A Note on the Text, Elizabeth Reed

John Brown, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, An Orphan Boy (1832)

William Dodd, A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd, A Factory Cripple. Written by Himself (1841)

James Myles, Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy (1850)

Ellen Johnston, "Autobiography of Ellen Johnston, 'The Factory Girl'" (1867) and "Autobiography" (1869)

Appendix A: Contemporary Perspectives on A Memoir of Robert Blincoe

1.

A Correspondent to The Lion, "Confirmation of the Memoir of Robert Blincoe" (14 March 1828)
2.

A Friend at Manchester, "Confirmation of Blincoe's Printed Memoir By Himself" (28 March 1828)
3.

Robert Blincoe, Testimony before the 1833 Royal Commission on the Employment of Children in Factories
4.

Substantive Changes in Doherty’s 1832 Edition of the Memoir

Appendix B: Contemporary Perspectives on William Dodd’s Narrative

1.

Lord Ashley and John Bright, from the debate of 15 March 1844, House of Commons
2.

William Dodd, from The Laboring Classes of England (1847)

Appendix C: Contemporary Perspectives on Myles's Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy

1.

James Myles, from Rambles in Forfarshire (1850)
2.

William Norrie, from Dundee Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century (1873): James Myles, Robert Nicoll, and William Jackson

Appendix D: Contemporary Perspectives on Johnston's "Autobiography": Selected Poems from Autobiography, Poems and Songs of Ellen Johnston, 'The Factory Girl' (1867 and 1869)

1.

"The Working Man"
2.

"Kennedy's Dear Mill"
3.

"An Address to Napiers' Dockyard"
4.

"Lord Raglan's Address to the Allied Armies"
5.

"The Last Sark"
6.

"To my Aunt Phemie"
7.

"An Address to Nature on its Cruelty"
8.

"Lines to Mr James Dorward"
9.

"Lines by Edith to the Factory Girl"
10.

"The Factory Girl's Reply to 'Lines by Edith'"
11.

"The Factory Girl's Reply to Edith"
12.

"Lines to Mr G.D. Russell"
13.

"The Last Lay of 'The Factory Girl'"

Appendix E: Contemporary Documents: Parliamentary Testimony as Autobiography

1.

Charles Aberdeen, Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of Children in Factories
2.

Elizabeth Bentley, Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of Children in Factories

Appendix F: Factory Life: Contemporary Views

1.

Harriet Martineau, from A Manchester Strike (1832)
2.

Andrew Ure, from The Philosophy of Manufactures (1835)
3.

From The Young Folks of the Factory (1840)
4.

Frances Trollope, from Michael Armstrong (1840)
5.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "The Cry of the Children" (1843)
6.

R. Arthur Arnold, from The History of the Cotton Famine (1864)

Appendix G: Factory Legislation: Contemporary Views

1.

Richard Oastler, "The White Slaves of Yorkshire" (1830)
2.

Caroline Norton, A Voice from the Factories (1836)
3.

John Fielden, from The Curse of the Factory System (1836)
4.

Robert Hyde Greg, from The Factory Question and the "Ten Hours Bill" (1837)
5.

Frances Trollope, from Michael Armstrong (1840)
6.

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, from Helen Fleetwood (1841)

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