Life in the iron-mills: the complete text
Introduction: cultural and historical background
Life in the iron-mills (1861 Atlantic Monthly edition)
Life in the iron-mills: cultural context
The village blacksmith / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That aristocracy may be engendered by manufactures / Alexis de Tocqueville
Iron interests of wheeling / A.W. Campbell
Senate testimony from iron foundry proprietor / John Roach
In Soho on Saturday night (song) / Anonymous
Perils- immigration / Josiah Strong
The Anglo-Saxon and the world's future / Josiah Strong
Senate testimony on the kitchen garden movement / Anna Gordon
Ten nights in a bar-room (excerpt) / T.S. Arthur
The Quaker of the olden time / John Greenleaf Whittier
The Quaker settlement (from uncle tom's cabin) / Harriet Beecher Stowe
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (excerpt) / Edward Bellamy
An inquiry into the art-conditions and prospects of America / James Jackson Jarves
Art thoughts (excerpt) / James Jackson Jarves
Hints to american artists / Anonymous
Conversations in a studio (excerpt)William Wetmore Story
The Stewart art gallery / Anonymous
The process of sculpture / Anonymous
The Greek slave / Anonymous
A sculptor's studio (from the marble faun) / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Roderick Hudson (excerpt) / Henry James
/ Senate testimony on the arts and art education in the United States / Wilson McDonald
Senate testimony on industrial art schools for women / Florence Elizabeth Cory
Women and writing: the public platform
Letter to George D. Ticknor / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The great lawsuit (excerpt) / Margaret Fuller
St. Elmo (excerpt) / Augusta Evans Wilson
Literary women / Caroline Kirkland
Ruth Hall (excerpt) / Fanny Fern
A New England girlhood (excerpt) / Lucy Larcom
Little Women (excerpt) / Louisa May Alcott
Life and letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe (excerpt) / Annie Fields