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'Life in the Iron Mills' was a short story written by Rebecca Harding Davis, set in the factory world of the nineteenth century. It was one of the earliest Amer

Representing four prominent American women writers who flourished in the period following the Civil War, this collection includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Re

Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class through their writing, from the first influx of industrialism in the 1850s to the end