The Operative's Friend, and Defence: or, Hints to Young Ladies who are Dependent on their Own Exertions

Porter, James

Published by Charles H. Peirce, Boston, 1850

About this Item

Purple cloth decorated in gilt & in blind, binding has faded but is not damaged and still tight. Yellow end papers; a light dampstain at the bottom of the text that fades out by page 15. A few creased leaves and light soil in the table of contents and first page of text. 229 otherwise clean pp. "Stereotyped and Printed by George C. Rand and Company" on the copyright page.An unusual book directed to young women working in New England factories. Fifteen chapters with the first being, "Factory Business Honorable." The next is "General Character of Operatives," and by "operatives" the author means operators of machinery. Other chapters include Social Vices and Virtues, Domestic Improvement, Economy, Health, Mental Cultivation, Manners, Marriage, Habits of Business, The Sabbath, Religion, and Our Moral Necessities and their Supply.Rev. James Porter, D.D. (1808-1888), Methodist minister and Secretary of the National Temperance Society (1868-82); born at Middleborough, Massachusetts. Porter was an active itinerant in his early years of ministry, preaching at many revival and temperance meetings. He wrote The True Evangelist, or an Itinerant Ministry (1849); Revivals of Religion: Their Theory, Means, Obstructions, Uses and Importance (1849)l A Compendium of Methodism (1851); Spirit Rapping, Mesmerism, Clairvoyance, etc. Calmly Considered and Exposed (1853); and other influential religious works. In 1856 he became an assistant book agent with the New York office of the Methodist Book Concern, and found success as he rose through the ranks to become an editor and publisher.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Operative's Friend, and Defence: or, Hints to Young Ladies who are Dependent on their Own Exertions
• Publisher: Charles H. Peirce, Boston
• Publication Date: 1850
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Third Edition.
• Condition: Good
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