Joseph Whitworth

The novel begins with two orphans, John and Alice Withers, who spend their childhood in a workhouse. John grows up to work in the Lancashire cotton mills and takes an interest in factory machinery and...

She and her brother entertained such visitors as George Henry Lewes , dramatist Westland Marston , Italian exile and journalist Antonio Gallenga , manufacturer William Edward Forster , mechanical engineer Joseph Whitworth , poet and...