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Industrial Revolution

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The Infamous Harry Hayward by Shawn Francis Peters

Gilded Age Biographies (nonfiction)

135 books — 8 voters

The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott

Call the Darkness Light by Nancy Zaroulis

Lowell Mills

55 books — 7 voters

And Then He Kissed Her by Laura Lee Guhrke

Turn of the Century European Set Romance

29 books — 8 voters

The Great Gypsy Moth War by Robert J. Spear

Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor

Massachusetts - 1800s (nonfiction)

13 books — 6 voters

Women of Wolfram Camp by Jenny Kroonstuiver

Swoon-Worthy (Mainly Regency) Romances

106 books — 12 voters

Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas

The Weaver Takes a Wife by Sheri Cobb South

Soot: Historical Romances Featuring Factories and Mills

28 books — 15 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Industrial Revolution”

“ Industry is not the sign of advancement, equality is. ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

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“ Even our best endeavors turn against us. A loom that can do the work of eight men should free eight men from servitude. Instead, seven skilled men are put out of work to starve with their families, and one skilled man because the unskilled minder of the mechanical loom. What is the point of progress if it benefits the few while the many suffer? ”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

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