(FICTION) Tyler Martha W A Book Without a Title Or Thrilling

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(FICTION.) Tyler, Martha W. A Book Without a Title: Or, Thrilling Events in the Life of Mira Dana. 260 pages. 12mo, publisher's cloth, moderate wear; foxing; early owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Boston, 1855

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first edition. "The earliest known representation of a factory strike in United States fiction"--Ranta, Women and Children of the Mills, page 239. The proto-feminist heroine of this autobiographical novel leads her fellow mill girls in a strike closely resembling the Lowell, MA strike of 1834. Wright, American Fiction 1851-1875, 2568. No other copies known at auction.