The Portion of Labor

Name: The Portion of Labor
Author: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
ISBN: 9781836100331

Author: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Read by: Victoria Styles
Language: English
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes
ISBN: 9781836100331
Published: 8 January 2026
Imprint: Fractal Press

family conflict
poverty
childhood
resilience
domestic struggle
social class
identity
emotional turmoil
coming of age
independence

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Ellen Brewster grows from neglected childhood into New England shoe-mill labour, where strike, class conflict, and a woman's need for dignity reshape her life. Spoken as when the mill whistle still asks what a worker may keep of herself.

Author

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) grew up in Randolph, Massachusetts, and wrote the New England village as if every parlour were a theatre of will. A New England Nun is the famous short weather of a woman who will not be hurried into marriage; Pembroke is the same climate at novel length — pride, church, and a stubbornness that can freeze a town. She later took the Howells Medal. The regional is never small in her hands. Thrift has a pulse.

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Ebook · English · Fractal Press9781836101840