Life in the Iron Mills
- Length
- 1 h 31 min
- Chapters
- 3
- Language
- English
- Genre
- General Fiction
- First published
- 1861
This 1861 novella was the first published work by Rebecca Harding Davis: writer, social reformer, and pioneer of literary realism. It tells the story of Hugh Wolfe, a Welsh laborer in an iron mill who is also a talented sculptor, and of Deborah, the hunchbacked woman who unrequitedly loves him. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)
Chapters
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