Mary Elizabeth Braddon: The Factory Girl, Or, All Is Not Gold That Glitters, a Romance of Real Life, 1863 - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1837722498 ISBN 13 : 9781837722495

Editeur : University of Wales Press, 2025

Synopsis

A new edition of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Factory Girl that includes an introduction that places the novel in its historical and literary contexts, including its connections with Gothic and sensation fiction traditions.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Factory Girl first appeared in serial installments in London's Halfpenny Journal from January to October 1863. Published anonymously, the novel is an exciting romp through the various tropes of both Gothic and sensation fiction, including poisoning, dueling, kidnapping, secret identities, cross-class love affairs, gambling addictions, and mock marriages. It is one of many nineteenth-century texts that portrayed the "factory girl" as an innocent young woman who was threatened by economic precarity, lecherous suitors, and even her own family. With numerous twists and a large cast of villains, the novel offers a critique of gender and class structures that left women in precarious positions. Sometimes called a "penny blood," this kind of cheap novel was likely read by factory girls themselves, and this edition, complete with original illustrations, shows why Braddon became the "queen of the circulating library."

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) was a British novelist best known for Lady Audley's Secret.

Bridget M. Marshall is professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and the author of Industrial Gothic: Workers, Exploitation and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature, also published by the University of Wales Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wales Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1837722498
• ISBN 13: 9781837722495
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Éditeur: Marshall Bridget M.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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