Factory Gothic

ALT Image of book cover for Industrial Gothic by Bridget Marshall, with a blurb from Dr. Teresa A. Goddu, Vanderbilt University

ALT newspaper illustration with an image of a man sitting at a desk writing with VERY large feathers. Underneath are the words "LIFE IN LOWELL."

ALT masthead for The Rose Bud, Or Youth's Gazette July 13, 1833

ALT "items for youth" "Accident, at the President's reception, in Lowell, Mass -- The washington Artillery, a company of boys, which was formed a year or two since, were discharging a piece, as a salute; while two of them were loading it, it went off, and carried away the left hand of one and the right hand of the other, besides otherwise injuring them. Their names, we understand, were Russell and Drummer. Russell is very badly injured, and but faint hopes are entertained for her recover"

ALT "To make a sensation novel" starts with "take your bank-note and put it in a desk or drawer accidentally left open. Have ready two families, one demonically bad, the other angellically good." "Put the good family into a stew ....garnish with bad French..." "this is the novel a la madame Henri de Bois"

ALT "another way" is to "take a handsome young lady, a regular screamer, or aurorer, let her marry two husbands, mix, and let her murder one of them. Vary by letting some one else commit the murder and accuse her of it. Put her into a lunatic asylum. Throw the other husbands into wells, and take them out or not as suits your fancy....."

ALT "another way" is to "take two sisteres, one strong- minded and dark, the other weak-minded and fair, or vice versa.....butter well, and ....roast the reader over a slow fire till done....This is the novel a la Cilkie Wollins!"

ALT black and white sketch of fashionable women, many wearing remarkable hats -- one appears to be a birdcage, one is a paper cone of some sort, one is an umbrella. One is walking a dog wearing a polkadot coat.

ALT black and white sketch of women at a fancy party, many with strange conical hairstyles, one is completely bald, all have ostentatious dresses, and very odd head/hair-ware

ALT most popular novels include: Sensation novel -- The woman in White Historic novel -- Ivanhoe Dramatic novel -- Monte Cristo Domestic Novel -- The Vicar of Wakefield Sea Novel -- Midshipman easy Novel of rural life -- Adam Bede Political novel -- Lothair Novel written with a purpose - Uncle Tom's Cabin Scotch novel -- Heart of Midlothian Imaginative Novel -- She Humorous novel -- Pickwick Irish novel -- Charles O'Malley American novel -- The Scarlet Letter The most popular novel of all -- Vanity Fair

ALT close up of a section of the Skowhegan Clarion (a newspaper written in pencil on a large piece of paper) with the quotation "LYING LIPS ARE ABOMINATION TO THE LORD" and a pencil sketch of a boy holding a bird with the words "YOUNG REAPER" around him.

ALT one view of the handwritten newspaper called "The Monthly" on small pieces of papery of various sizes. You can get more information and see the whole thing here: https://www.americanantiquarian.org/node/9191

ALT another clip from the handwritten Skowhegan Clarion, this one featuring a drawing of an elephant and the phrase "The elephant is the most knowing of all brutes"

ALT another view of the handwritten newspaper called "The Monthly" on small pieces of papery of various sizes. This page is titled "The spice of life" and features "the fashion" including a sketch of a couple of people walking. You can get more information and see the whole thing here: https://www.americanantiquarian.org/node/9191

ALT Black and white newspaper illustration with title "Life in Lowell" featuring a man with very messy hair and a stressed face sitting and writing at an angled desk with a VERY long feathered quill pen.

ALT Close up of center of masthead for Life in Lowell featuring an image of the city of Lowell with lots of factories and a line of women in dresses and bonnets heading into it.

ALT Masthead for Palmer's Illustrated Life in Lowell featuring an image of Lowell in the center

ALT Masthead for Life in Lowell with an image of Lowell in the center

ALT small book with plain cover that says "The Factory Girl publishe dby E. T. Hazeltine, Warren, PA"