The Silent Partner: Including "The Tenth of January"

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

ISBN 10: 0935312080 / ISBN 13: 9780935312089

Published by The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Silent Partner: Including "The Tenth of January"
• Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0935312080
• ISBN 13: 9780935312089
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The Silent Partner (1871) and “The Tenth of January” (1868) were among the earliest realistic portrayals of industrial life—and social injustice—in the United States. The novel focuses on Sip, a mill worker, and Miss Kelso, the silent partner in the mill after her father’s death. The lives of these two women intersect as worker and owner as they both reject marriage proposals in favor of new vocations—underscoring Phelps’s vision that, regardless of class, women can be united around their right to work.

About the Author

ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844 - 1911) wrote 57 books and hundreds of shorter pieces in her lifetime. MARI JO BUHLE is professor of history at Brown University. FLORENCE HOWE is director of The Feminist Press at The City University of New York.