Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy

Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy
Illustration of a scene in a cotton mill for the book by Auguste Hervieu
AuthorFrances Milton Trollope
LanguageEnglish
GenreSocial novel
PublisherHenry Colburn
Publication date1840
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy is an 1840 social novel by the British writer Frances Milton Trollope.[1][2] It was originally serialized in months installments, and then published as a three volume novel.[3] Inspired by a visit she had made to Manchester, it concerns issues of child labour in the cotton mills of the Industrial Revolution. It is also known by the longer title The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy.

References

  1. ↑ Wagner p.2
  2. ↑ Ayres p.35
  3. ↑ Hodson p.111

Bibliography

  • Ayres, Brenda (ed.) Frances Trollope and the Novel of Social Change. Bloomsbury Academic, 2002.
  • Hodson, Jane (ed.) Dialect and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century. : Taylor & Francis, 2017.
  • Wagner, Tamara. Frances Trollope: Beyond “Domestic Manners”. Routledge, 2013.
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