Edie Factory Girl

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She was riveting to look at, a sprite of the zeitgeist, the living distillation of the over-amped vision of New York in the mid-sixties. Like many exotic creatures that Andy Warhol shed his light on, she initially bloomed—became the symbol for all that was hip and stylish—and just as quickly began to disintegrate. Told with unsparing candor and with candid images that capture her at the peak of her Factory stardom, Edie Factory Girl is the short but enduring cultural story of Edie Sedgwick—releasing in time for the film of the same name starring Sienna Miller, and including rare photos of Miller as Edie.

David Dalton was just a teen when he became one of Warhol's first assistants, and was present for the arrival of Edie: witnessing her rise, her Factory superstardom, and subsequent unraveling. Like an anthropologist thrown together with a tribe of "wild" people, Nat Finkelstein entered the Factory just as Warhol was emerging as the supreme catalyst of the sixties. Among the freaky menagerie, Nat found Andy's misbegotten princess the most fascinating and enigmatic character of her time, and with a compassionate lens recorded her fragile, fleeting beauty. Edie Factory Girl is a privileged glimpse into Warhol's inner sanctum, via revealing interviews with intimates, friends, and scenesters, in which Edie orbits around the likes of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dali, Betsey Johnson, Lou Reed, Judy Garland, and many more, before departing as quickly as she came.

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A Fresh New Coat of Paint.......2007-08-02

The classic oral biography American Girl is a much more thorough book on Edie. Yet 5 star reviewers say Factory Girl reflects Edie better than American Girl. Hmmm.

Let me spin it toward 5 stars: In The Painted Word, Tom Wolfe's thesis is that modern art is a Rorschach test - the *real* art is the explanation framed to the side and the critiques. Wordsmiths convince us why something is important. American Girl is less about Edie - the subject/art - and more about her cohorts' explanations and critiques. Admittedly, when I read American Girl (twice), I thought "Edie is interesting" less than I thought, "Her friends and associates are so articulate and literary!" American Girl is heavy with lit allusions, and bogged with the weight of the past -- that East Coast respect for history and ancestors. In contrast, Factory Girl is Edie fresh and un-tethered; quick, scattered, manic, expensive, damaged (my copy is dog-eared), visual, cosmic, drifting into non-sensical... The focus is on design (mod colors, font that pops and recedes, quick-cut editing) and pictures to create an overall image. (The only contrast between Factory Girl and Edie is that the book is built to last, with pages far from translucent. The materials are thick and SOLID - well worth the $30.00 retail. You could fend off a few junkies with this piece of art!)

American Girl has stuck with me though. And Factory Girl has lifted some text from American Girl. If anything, the text works better when highlighted - if not dominated - by the Factory Girl colors (white font on color paper, etc) and photos. But, wait a tick, the pictures don't really capture this chick either! The camera that "doesn't lie" paradoxically adds to Edie's enigmatic quality. Exactly! That's Her! Who? Exactly!! Whatchoo talkin' `bout, Willis?! Right on! Anyhow, so yeah, Factory Girl cuts and pastes words. Why not? How can anyone build onto the words of American Girl, that old skyscraper? Factory Girl is now - hectic Cliffs Notes in a colorful bow. It'll flip your wig!

In short, Factory Girl is visual poP*, where American Girl is... like literature. Read American Girl first (or again). Then get Factory Girl. It's no American Girl, but was still the best thing I saw at a two hour Borders hunt. (:::::Everyone who was anyone was staring at the book, transfixed. The New Thing. It got more looks than Judy Garland's book!:::::)

I'd also recommend the biopic book "Kylie: La, La, La." If you like your pixie icons sane and healthy, you'll love it! (If you're a romantic who thinks *you* could have saved Edie... don't get "La, La, La"). Kylie doesn't need to be rescued -- but I'll bet she shags like a clear-minded minx!

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Edie: American Girl
Andy Warhol: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (Warhol says Edie doesn't bathe and has layers of dirt - sign o' the times)
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians: "Little Miss S." ("in a mini-dress, living it up to die")
Bob Dylan: "Just Like a Woman" (said to be written about Edie)
Ivory soap
Sheila E.: "The Glamorous Life"
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Bullwhip (designer or thrift store chic - whatever tickles your fancy)
Ultimate Kylie DVD: "I Should Be So Lucky" (Kylie walks around a sparkly clean loft and takes a bubble bath!! The New New Thing!)
Kylie Minogue: La, La, La (the picture book for the ages)
INXS: "Suicide Blonde" (Written for Kylie -- was she that tragic?! Sorry druggies, Kylie joked that her hair was dyed "Suicide Blonde", and beau Michael Hutchence wrote the song. Also eerily apt for Edie).
James St. James: Party Monster (book describes the NYC scene after Warhol died and left a vacuum - filled by those wacky Club Kids! It got MORE decadent!)

Later hippies!

Nothing new.......2007-07-30

This book is actually somewhat of a rip-off. Many of the quotes are from the book "Edie", which most people who would buy this book have probably already read. Though most of the pictures are candids, they are unlear, dull and don't give you any impression of Edie whatsoever. They are almost like bad pictures you might find in your basement that you meant to throw out. I was very dissapointed in this book. It's clearly another bad cash-in on Edie's posthumous fame.

Edie: Factory Girl.......2007-03-18

Nice looking Edie book with rare interviews & photos. Unfortunately, seems to concentrate a lot on the negative aspects about Edie & her life. Better off buying a copy on Edie:Girl on Fire!

If nothing else worth it for most of the photos alone.......2007-03-03

Each page has a gorgeous full color photo or photos of Edie, some of which I have never seen before but most of them I have in other books. A lot of the color photos also appear in Nat Finkelstein's The Factory Years which gives a greater photographic over view of "the factory". The pages are thick and glossy and technicolored like a Warhol painting and the font, utilizing many different font sizes in one paragraph, can be a bit challeging to read. The text is primarily a rehash of snippets from George Plimptons Edie: An American Biography which is far superior in content and photos although all of the photos are black and white. Over all a nicely done tribute to a fascinating and tragic person but more of a photo album/coffee table book than a biography. A definite must for any Edie fan.

Finkstein & Fields arguing on Amazon might be better...If it's real. I suggest you read their messges to each other........2007-02-28

I knew nothing about Finkelstein until I bought this book. His photographs of Edie Sedgewick are so absent of shading truth that at first I was startled by what I saw. Before this book, I'd seen her only in images of black and white, which leave the mind open to interpretation.
Color forces you to see intriguing and harsh truths. I spent hours studying his shading and her facial pores. Yet one of the most striking photographs he took of Edie was in black and white when she had a lace shawl over her head. One can play around with black and white photos in the dark room. But in one photo in particular, he captured a death's-head. He writes in this book that he saw what was coming and purposely took the photos of her in the shawl that showed her in such a dark way. Whether that's so or not, he captured a young girl with death already there.
Everytime I came across a picture that startled me or made me look twice, it was taken by Finkelstein. In this book and the other book that came out right before the movie, "Factory Girl," (Weisman's "Edie, Girl on Fire,") Finkelstein's photographs captured me every time. He shows a girl who is tired and pounding on the make-up in an attempt to seem like she once was. His photographs show that she was already dead inside long before she actually died at age 28. Where was he when Jean Stein's book, "Edie," first appeared in...was it 1981?
As for Danny Fields, he's a raw gem that has contributed to our history in a great way that he seems to underestimate. Maybe the "feud" with Finkelstein is just a ruse. When you're dealing with people from Warhol's orbit who are still floating around out there....You never know for sure.

Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 (Dear America Series)

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Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 (Dear America Series)
Deborah Hopkinson
Manufacturer: Scholastic Inc.
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ASIN: 0439221617

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Angela and her family have arrived in New York City from their village in Italy to find themselves settled in a small tenement apartment on the Lower East Side. When her father is no longer able to work, Angela must leave school and work in a shirtwaist factory. Against the backdrop of the birth of the labor union movement in the early 1900s, Angela plays a part in the drama and turmoil that erupt as the workers begin to strike, protesting the terrible conditions in the sweatshops. And she records the horrors of the Triangle Factory fire and the triumphs and sorrows of the labor movement.

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Five Stars.......2007-08-08

Another wonderful addition to the Dear America Series. Angela must leave school to go to work to support her family since her father is no longer able to. Angela goes to work at a shirtwaist factory where she's surprised by the horrible working conditions and becomes involved in the unions. She also records the fire at the infamous shirtwaist factory fire.

Great!.......2007-04-22

The book, Hear My Sorrow, is 100 percent awesome! I read it in one day I was so needing to find out what would happen! It is about a girl named Angela Denoto from Sicily, which is in Italy, and starts in late 1909 and ends in mid 1911. She is sent to work with her sister in a shirtwaist factory. It takes place during the shirtwaist workers and cloak makers strikes and ends with a horrific tragedy. I hope you read this to find out what happens.

Heartbreaking.......2005-09-29

This book was very good. The book lite up with hope at every little, page but is a heartbreaking plot. Please read this book!! It's very good!!

A must read!.......2005-06-24

Hear My Sorrow is the best book in the series. It was given to me by my tudor, and I read it and loved it. It is about the sorrow of Angela, who was conmanded by her father to work ina factory. She writes about how her locker and needles come out of her pay, and how her friend, Sarah, goes on strike, this all leads up tothe fire of 1911. It's a must read.

A Wonderful Work of Historical Fiction.......2005-05-29

This is the fourth Dear America book I've read with a story and characters set in turn-of-the-century or early twentieth century New York City. In what I believe is Deborah Hopkinson's first attempt at fiction, she has wonderfully captured the people and events, the trials and triumphs, the tragedies and hopes of a most fascinating period and place. Other reviews have summarized the story throughly, so I won't go into that here. I wish rather to say that as a lover of both historical fiction and an aspiring novelist, I admire and appreciate Ms. Hopkinson's work. Scholastic Inc., should consider expanding its Dear America line. I had heard that the company only accepts agented manuscripts for consideration for the Dear America series, but further inquiry revealed that even those are not being considered. It seems that at the present, only a handful of previously published children's authors are being allowed to write new additions to the series. I hope that will change soon. Again, I congratulate Ms. Hopkinson on her excellent and meticulously researched book. That and "The Journal of Finn Reardon" should be part of every public library in America.

Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan

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Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan
E. Patricia Tsurumi
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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ASIN: 0691000352

Book Description

Investigating the enormous contribution made by female textile workers to early industrialization in Meiji Japan, Patricia Tsurumi vividly documents not only their hardships but also their triumphs.

Frank McGuinness: Plays One: The Factory Girls, Observe the Sons of Ulster, Marching Towards the Somme, Innocence, Carthaginians, Baglady (Faber Contemporary Classics)

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A Worthwile Read

Frank McGuinness: Plays One: The Factory Girls, Observe the Sons of Ulster, Marching Towards the Somme, Innocence, Carthaginians, Baglady (Faber Contemporary Classics)
Frank McGuiness
Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
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Binding: Paperback

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Barry Plays 1 (Methuen Contemporary Dramatists)
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ASIN: 0571177409

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A Worthwile Read.......1999-12-06

In "Plays One," all of Frank McGuinness' major plays are offered in their entirity, edited by the playwright himself. Compared to legendary Irish playwright Sean O'Casey, McGuinness' plays are simutaneously striking and complex, and inspire tremendous reflection within the reader. With the exception of the rather simple "Factory Girls," the remainder of McGuinness' plays included in "Plays One" are filled with layer after layer of substance, likely to inspire even the most simple and passive of readers to consider the playwrights many feasible intentions. Whether one is a scholar of Irish Literature or not, it is unlikely that anyone could be disappointed with McGuinness plays. In "Plays One," Frank McGuinness proves that the comparisons to O'Casey are not unwarranted.

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A beautifully written weaving of historical fact and fiction

Factory Girl
Barbara Greenwood
Manufacturer: Kids Can Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Harlem Summer

ASIN: 1553376498

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Twelve-year-old Emily Watson's story is a shocking, compassionate re-creation of daily life for the urban poor one hundred years ago. At the dingy, overcrowded Acme Garment Factory, Emily Watson stands for eleven hours a day clipping threads from blouses. Every time the boss passes, he shouts at her to snip faster. But if Emily snips too fast, she could ruin the garment and be docked pay. If she works too slowly, she will be fired. She desperately needs this job. Without the four dollars a week it brings, her family will starve. When a reporter arrives, determined to expose the terrible conditions in the factory, Emily finds herself caught between the desperate immigrant girls with whom she works and the hope of change. Then tragedy strikes, and Emily must decide where her loyalties lie. With Factory Girl, Barbara Greenwood returns to the unique hybrid of fact and fiction that earned her acclaim for The Last Safe House, A Pioneer Thanksgiving and others. The life of working children in North American cities in the early part of the twentieth century directly inspired young Emily's story. Her fictional experiences are interwoven with nonfiction sections describing family life in a slum, the fight to improve social conditions, the plight of working children then and now, and much more. Rarely seen archival photos accompany this story of the past as only Barbara Greenwood can tell it.

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A beautifully written weaving of historical fact and fiction.......2007-10-18

This was a fantastic book. It is reminiscent of the American Girl Series in that the fact-based fictional character is an independent, progressively-minded girl of her time period, and in the way historical facts and photos are woven in with the fictional text. However, it is written in a much more sophisticated manner than the American Girl books, and provides more depth of information. We have read several of Barbara Greenwood's other books as well, and they are similarly beautifully written and illustrated.

The Lowell Mill Girls: Life in the Factory (Perspectives on History Series)

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Primary Source Documents Tell the Story
Primary Sources help in the study of the Industrial Revoluti

The Lowell Mill Girls: Life in the Factory (Perspectives on History Series)

Manufacturer: Discovery Enterprises, Limited (MA)
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Binding: Paperback

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Farm to Factory

ASIN: 1579600417

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Primary Source Documents Tell the Story.......2001-01-03

Essays, journals, letters, and an interesting piece of historical fiction tell this story of the young women who worked in the textile mills in New England. Timetable of the workday and Boarding House regulations of the day are enlightening - especially if you think life is hard today!

Primary Sources help in the study of the Industrial Revoluti.......1999-05-29

This collection of letters, journals, newspaper accounts and interviews of the young girls who worked in the Lowell Mills is balanced off by the thoughts of the Mill owners. Great background for the study of Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson.

We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women's Factory Strike of 1909

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Women Finally Get To Be Heard!
We Shall Not Be Moved
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An account of the famous 1909 women's garment makers strike.

We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women's Factory Strike of 1909
Joan Dash
Manufacturer: Polaris
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Binding: Paperback

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Young people feeling like they can't change the world should read Joan Dash's We Shall Not Be Moved. In 1909, teenage girls led some 30,000 shirt cutters, pressers, and finishers in the "largest strike of women workers ever known in the United States." These young women, who lived near poverty and spoke different languages, nevertheless brought the shirt-making industry to a halt for more than 13 weeks. Not only did it unite factory workers, it gained crucial support from college-educated suffragists and from women in high society, often called "the mink brigade." The strike, which began in New York and spread to Philadelphia, ultimately led to a settlement between more than 300 manufacturers and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

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Women Finally Get To Be Heard!.......2002-11-16

Would you ever stand outside in the freezing cold, while getting beat and stared at all just to be heard and fight for something that you know you may never ever win? Well most wouldn't, however the brave yet very young shirtwaist girls did, day after day until something was done about it! The novel We Shall Not Be Moved by the author Joan Dash clearly and vividly informs readers about the "Women's Factory Strike Of 1909". Though many look upon the matter as insignificant it is truly the opposite as the author obviously demonstrates in her writing and enthusiasm.
The story is a very influential and heartbreaking; however it is all of this as well as more all while being incredibly precise. It explains that not only hardworking "men" get tired but hardworking women need a break also. Though it is indeed a story of triumph it sends an important and strong message across to its readers. The story starts in a shirtwaist building as many, many girls started their days in 1909. Young women, so deep into their silent yet busily done work they almost overlooked one little fact. The almost did not and at times ignored the simply stated fact that they were being "pushed around". Any one of the girls could have told a story of going hungry, not having a home and numerous more mishaps that occurred. All of them due to a extremely unfortunate cause, the very undersized amount of pay they received, especially for such carefully done work. Finally, a fed up girl speaking and crying out in Yiddish tongue announced her pain to the entire room of people, each and every one with the same exact opinion on the subject matter. Soon, that one girl would change the world.
Dash's writing plainly shows her passion and beliefs on the subject matter. The author uses descriptive and vibrant words to express emotion and feeling. Very specific detail and accurate facts also contribute to the wonderful story. In addition, occasional quotes and/or excerpts from original speeches dating back as far as the late early 1900's add to the exceptional story line. One of the plentiful examples include: "Many were paralyzed by their ignorance of the new country". This quote is not only strong and powerful but truthful all at the same time. It has a deeper meaning than what it says, it goes way beyond that simple meaning it seems to have. It conveys the seriousness of young girls (immigrants) coming to America with no skills and whatnot trying to make a living anyhow. She accurately and intensely captures what exactly the girls went through at the time period.
Dash uses real life situations that many of the young adults were faced with. For instance "One girl is given the factual name of Rea Lupatkin. She is nineteen, and like thousands of other young, single Jewish women she has come to America entirely on her own. Working in a shirtwaist factory, Rea earns four dollars for a fifty-six-hour week. Out of this she pays four dollars a month for lodging in a tenement apartment shared with a married couple and their child. She walks forty-five minutes to work each day to save the expense of carfare. Her food costs $2.25 a week so her regular weekly costs of living are $3.25, leaving seventy-five cents for every other expense. All the same Rea sends an occasional two dollars abroad to her family in Europe." This story is just one of the several young shirtwaist girls' stories. It proves that there were treated unfairly by their bosses and such. In addition it demonstrates that the young women were living and supporting not only themselves, but usually their family as well on close to nothing! These are just some of the various stories and testimonies of the shirtwaist makers.
Clara Lemlich, the one how happened to luckily start the strike and ILGWU (International Ladies Garment Workers Union) movement, clearly had spirit and nerve! She would go on to lead the young women and countless others in a march that not only changed the world for their advantage, but for the better!

We Shall Not Be Moved.......2002-06-05

The Story is about women in America. It was the year 1909 and new immigrants are coming from different countries. They get jobs as shirtwaist-makers. Some of the women workers go on strike because of the low wages and unbearable conditions. They are picketing even though they get sent to jail or beaten up.Then, some other women in the middle classes and higher classes start unions for these workers. American girls and Immigrant girls alike join together in some strikes.
I liked the book very much. It was very educational. It was also exciting and exhilirating. I liked the book because it had girl power. It told me of how men dominated the world from women. It showed me to be very strong about something you believe in. It was a big morale booster, especially for girls.
I chose this book because of the cover. I thought the cover was very much enticing.The cover of this book caught my eye. Also because when I read the back of the book it grabbed my attention. I like historical books. I read some reviews of this book and it looked pretty good.

Startling.......2001-09-17

I was shocked that these women(and a few men)were willing to risk so much,their jobs, their homes, their respect, their pride and their safty for higher wages and for more resect.Many of them were beaten by hird thugs.Stricker and streetwalker(hooker) were sininims,it was so scary to the strickers because if the strick did not in time they might be driven to being a streetwalker by hunger.Although this book is slitly depressing it is a good book.My words don't even begin to describe the pain these women felt.

Startling.......2001-09-17

An account of the famous 1909 women's garment makers strike........1996-06-30

Though intended for a juvenile audience, this book is a lively and powerful account of perhaps the most famous labor strike in American history. In 1909, after years of abusive and unfair wages and working conditions, those who sewed women's garments -- mostly women themselves -- joined with suffragists and society matrons in a protest against those conditions. Ms. Dash weaves her narrative of the days before and during the strike through the fabric of the daily lives of the women. This is a book for anyone interested in women's history and feminism, no matter what age she (or, hopefully, he) is.

The Factory Girl and the Seamstress: Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth Century American Fiction (Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture)

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The Factory Girl and the Seamstress: Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth Century American Fiction (Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture)
Amal Amireh
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0815336209

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This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American literary and cultural studies due to the general view that antebellum writers did not engage with their society's economic and social relaities. Against this view and to highlight the cultural importance of working-class women, this study argues that, in responding to industrialization, middle class writers such as Melville, Hawthorne, Fern, Davies, and Phelps used the figures of the factory worker and the seamstress to express their anxieties about unstable gender and class identitites. These fictional representations were influenced by, and contributed to, an important but understudied cultural debate about wage labor, working women, and class.
(Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University, 1997; revised with new preface, bibliography, and index)

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The Factory Girl or Gardez La Coeur
A I Cummings
Manufacturer: J E Short
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Factory Girl: Ellen Johnston And Working-class Poetry In Victorian Scotland (Scottish Studies International, Vol. 23)

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Factory Girl: Ellen Johnston And Working-class Poetry In Victorian Scotland (Scottish Studies International, Vol. 23)
H. Gustav Klaus
Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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It is at last being recognized that, contrary to common understanding, there were working-class women poets in the nineteenth century. Yet this growing awareness is rarely accompanied by a sustained engagement with their poetry. Painstaking research into the life and work of an author remains constricted to the Brownings and Rossettis of both sexes. The present study breaks with this academic habit. It is the first critical biography of the Glaswegian writer who signed her poems as The Factory Girl. It is an essay in recovery and exploration, situating Ellen Johnston at the intersection of gender, class and nation. It documents her range of subjects, styles and voices. The book is concluded by a selection of Ellen Johnston's verse.

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