Life in the Iron Mills (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Rebecca Blaine Harding
- First Published: 1861
- Type of Work: Novella
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The mid-nineteenth century
- Setting: An industrial town
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Suicide, Nineteenth century, Art or artists, Hope, Poverty or poor people, Oppression, Lower classes, Working class, Theft, Sculpting or sculptors, Sacrifice, Industrialization, Sculpture, Iron or iron ores
- Locales: United States, England
Characters Discussed
The narrator, an unnamed individual of unspecified gender, obviously a member of the privileged class. For some reason, this person has settled in a working-class area of a mill town, in the house where the two protagonists of the story once lived. He or she owns the statue of the “korl woman.”
Hugh Wolfe, a nineteen-year-old iron mill furnace tender. Born into poverty and a mill worker since childhood, he is undernourished and tubercular. Because he does not indulge in vicious pastimes, he is considered effeminate by his fellow workers. His...
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