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Working Women, Literary Ladies - The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration (Hardcover, New)
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Working Women, Literary Ladies - The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration (Hardcover, New)
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This book explores the mental and literary awakening that many
working-class women in the United States experienced when they left
the home and began to work in factories early in the nineteenth
century. Cook also examines many of the literary productions from
this group of women ranging from their first New England magazine
of belles lettres, The Lowell Offering, to Emma Goldman's
periodical, Mother Earth; from Lucy Larcom's epic poem of women
factory workers, An Idyl of Work, to Theresa Malkiel's fictional
account of sweatshop workers in New York, The Diary of a Shirtwaist
Striker. Working women's avid interests in books and writing
evolved in the context of an American romanticism that encouraged
ideals of self-reliance that were not formulated with factory girls
in mind. Their efforts to pursue a life of the mind while engaged
in arduous bodily labour also coincided with the emergence of
middle-class women writers from private and domestic lives into the
literary marketplace. However, while middle-class women risked
forfeiting their status as ladies by trying to earn money by
becoming writers, factory women were accused of selling out their
class credentials by trying to be literary. Cook traces the
romantic literariness of several generations of working-class women
in their own writing and the broader literary responses of those
who shared some, though by no means all, of their interests. The
most significant literary interaction, however, is with
middle-class women writers. Some of these, like Margaret Fuller,
envisioned ideals of female self-development that inspired, without
always including, working women. Others, like novelists Davis,
Phelps, Alcott, and Scudder, created compassionate fictions of
their economic and social inequities but balked at promoting their
artistic and intellectual equality.
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