{"product_id":"9781837722495","title":"Mary Elizabeth Braddon : The Factory Girl (1863) (Gothic Originals)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMary Elizabeth Braddon's The Factory Girl (1863) was a cheap serial intended for working-class readers. The sprawling plot centres on Laura Leslie and her daughter, Dora, who are the targets of a diverse cast of villains. After Laura's tragic death, Dora and her adoptive mother start a new life working in a cotton mill, but Dora's beauty attracts unwelcome attention, putting them in danger. Dora is the classic factory girl, a nineteenth-century revision of the Gothic heroine. Republished in the US in both newspapers and as a book, and translated into French, the novel has been out of print since the 1860s. This edition reproduces the original Halfpenny Journal text and illustrations, and adds a scholarly introduction placing the novel in numerous cultural contexts, including the rise of sensation fiction; nineteenth-century popular theatre; the transformation of the genre of the Gothic; and the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wales Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49241614156003,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":94.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781837722495-1.jpg?v=1788413475","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781837722495","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}