Title: Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy
Author and Title: Frances Milton Trollope. Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy
First Edition: London: Henry Colburn, 1840. 3 volumes, post 8vo., 25s.
Serialization: 12 parts, 1s per part, illustrated by Auguste Hervieu, London: Henry Colburn, March 1839 to February 1840 (monthly)
Summary: Illustrated by Auguste Hervieu, Robert W. Buss, and Thomas Onwhyn. A scheming manufacturer takes on the eponymous boy as a charity case, then discards him, banishing him to a factory run on child labor. This is an anti-child-labor novel. See entry in Sutherland. (LP)
Title Tags:
- Character: Orphan
- Genre: Social Problem Novel
- Genre: Factory Novel
- Reprint Series: Nineteenth-Century Fiction (2019)
References: BL; EC; NYPL (parts); Sutherland; Wolff
Texts
- Volume 1 from Google Books
- Volume 2 from Google Books
- Volume 3 from Google Books
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