She wrote this poem without any direct experience of factory conditions, but at a time when she was sensitized to social injustice by learning the extent of her estranged husband's power over her, and to...
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1841: The autobiographical A Narrative of the Experience...
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1841
The autobiographical A Narrative of the Experience and Suffering of William Dodd
: A Factory Cripple appeared in London.
Carlisle, Janice. “Introduction”. Factory Lives, edited by James R. Simmons, Broadview Press, 2007.
