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The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong
Frances Milton Trollope
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The industrial revolution led to the rise of manufacture and, thus, the cotton mill factories. This important novel tells about the plight of Michael Armstrong, one of the boys who is forced to work there. The aim of the novel was to expose the public to the conditions of thousands of "infant laborers" around the northern mill towns. The novel drew much criticism, of course. Yet, nonetheless, it is a forgotten masterpiece, perfect for fans of Oliver Twist and North and South. It is a brave novel, full of truth and honesty, yet probably not for the faint of heart.
The industrial revolution led to the rise of manufacture and, thus, the cotton mill factories. This important novel tells about the plight of Michael Armstrong, one of the boys who is forced to work there. The aim of the novel was to expose the public to the conditions of thousands of "infant laborers" around the northern mill towns. The novel drew much criticism, of course. Yet, nonetheless, it is a forgotten masterpiece, perfect for fans of Oliver Twist and North and South. It is a brave novel, full of truth and honesty, yet probably not for the faint of heart.
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Community Reviews
There is so much that is important about this book. Yet Fanny lets the importance of the topic down by some heavy-handed plotting. The first half is shocking (and sometimes funny) and I learnt a lot. But the general horror is inevitably sacrificed to the specific sentimentality.
Michael never really
The first part of a longer work examing the working class in England, Frances Milton Trollope's 'Life and adventures of Michael Armstrong, the factory boy' was just okay. Maybe subsequent volumes are better, but I could not find myself invested in this one. Although fictional, it puts politics befor
Melodramatic as hell at points, with a good dose of Victorian Christian morality and middle class thirst for orderly, non-violent change. (Trollope decided not to follow up on Michael's life due to real life riots where workers took matters into their own hands, much to her horror.)
But despite all
A really enjoyable and interesting read, one of those Victorian social critic novels I just love. I'm really enjoy the works of Frances Trollope so far, and I can't wait to read more by her.
I suppose there is a reason I had not heard of this book before: it is not very good. It was a real chore to read through the first parts of the novel, though it did get slightly better towards the end. Overall the narrative was rather uneven; I'm not sure in what conditions it was written but it fe
Before Engles, before Stowe, before Gaskell, writing contemporaneously with Carlyle and Dickens, Trollope provides an Inferno-like journey into the textile factories of Manchester circa 1840. Her research explores the social and business practices that gave rise to the watershed experience of the Br