Life in the Iron Mills

Rebecca Harding Davis (1831 - 1910)

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)

Genre(s): General Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Part 1 Elizabeth Klett
00:26:21
Play 02 Part 2 Elizabeth Klett
00:29:39
Play 03 Part 3 Elizabeth Klett
00:35:19