# Life in the Iron Mills

An audiobook by Rebecca Harding Davis, read by LibriVox volunteers (1 h 31 min, English).

This 1861 novella was the first published work by Rebecca Harding Davis: writer, social reformer, and pioneer of literary realism. It tells the story of Hugh Wolfe, a Welsh laborer in an iron mill who is also a talented sculptor, and of Deborah, the hunchbacked woman who unrequitedly loves him. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/4672)
[Read the book](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/gutenberg/876/read)

## Chapters

1. Part 1 (26:21): https://archive.org/download/lifeintheironmills_etk_librivox/lifeintheironmills_1_davis_64kb.mp3
2. Part 2 (29:39): https://archive.org/download/lifeintheironmills_etk_librivox/lifeintheironmills_2_davis_64kb.mp3
3. Part 3 (35:19): https://archive.org/download/lifeintheironmills_etk_librivox/lifeintheironmills_3_davis_64kb.mp3