by
Harriet H. Robinson
1898
Thomas Y. Crowell & Company
Boston: 100 Purchase Street
CHAPTER VII A GENERAL ELECTION — WE OPPOSE MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL — WE INTERVIEW MR BALFOUR — I LEAVE MANCHESTER TO ROUSE LONDON WITH £2 — I MEET MR. W. T. STEAD Fortunately for the new Militant Party, there was a prospective Cabinet Minister who chose as his constituency North-West Manchester. To us the whole…
Life in poor London
The Cotton Factory of To-day
Chapter VIIIBrief Biographies of Some of the Writers for the Lowell Offering It remains for me to give, so far as I have been able to glean them, the life-stories of a few of the most important of these mill-girl writers, some of them brief indeed, others perhaps of wider significance, but all telling a…
A working-class girl in Victorian London starts as a member of a girl-gang, is sent to reform school, and ultimately makes good.
Chapter 19 It was certainly not inclination that took Mord Em’ly by the ear that evening, and led her slowly but determinedly to Greenwich. Fear was mainly responsible, aided, perhaps, by a reckless spirit of fatalism. The little woman had kissed Henry Barden’s letter a good many times before she had started out—had pinned it…