{"product_id":"mary-elizabeth-braddon-1","title":"Mary Elizabeth Braddon","description":"Mary 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.","brand":"University of Wales Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54248494596440,"sku":"9781837722495","price":87.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781837722495_9f6e2105-2ae8-44d5-a334-605d8bce5683.jpg?v=1779944464","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mary-elizabeth-braddon-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}