David Pae Lucy the Factory Girl

LUCY, THE FACTORY GIRL;
OR, THE SECRETS OF THE TONTINE CLOSE
By David Pae
Edited by Graham Law, Professor in English Studies, Waseda University

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Almost entirely forgotten today, the Scotsman David Pae (1828-84), evangelical controversialist and founding editor of the People's Friend, was undoubtedly one of the most widely read novelists in mid-Victorian Britain. Over fifty of his sensational serial stories were syndicated in a wide range of cheap weekly newspapers throughout Scotland and the English provinces from the mid 1850s. Of these the most popular was Lucy, the Factory Girl, which first appeared in the Edinburgh newspaper The North Britain in 1858-9. Now republished for the first time for over a century, it should prove fascinating reading for all students of Victorian literary, social, and publishing history.

'Lucy, the Factory Girl includes a substantial element of fantasy and wish fulfilment (. . .) it is an urban fairy-tale with echoes of Cinderella and Ali Baba, but (. . .) the main intention is deadly serious. The novel delivers an unrelenting attack on the commercial ethos, the devouring materialism which the author saw as threatening to engulf Scotland.'
William Donaldson, Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland (1986)

'Outstanding among the newspaper novelists Law has momentarily resurrected is the tireless Scotsman David Pae.'
Richard Altick, Review of Graham Law's Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press, TLS, 9 February 2001

Graham Law is Professor in English Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo. In addition to publishing a wide range of articles on nineteenth century literature and society, he has produced editions of Victorian novels including Dickens's Hard Times and Great Expectations for Broadview Press. His book, Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press, was published by Palgrave in 2000.

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Hardback with an introduction, text of the novel of 350pp., explanatory notes, and illustrated appendices containing biographical, bibliographical, and contextural material.

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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vi
Introduction vii
A Note on the Text xv
Select Bibliography xx
Lucy, The Factory Girl 1
Appendix A: Mid-Victorian Glasgow 289
Appendix B: A Brief Life of David Pae by Andrew Stewart 301
Appendix C: Pae's Evangelicalism 307
(1) Pae's 1853 Pamphlet, The Coming Struggle
(2) Extracts from Pamphlets Responding to Pae's
Appendix D: Towards a Pae Bibliography 345
Explanatory Notes - 349

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