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The Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonThe Gilded Hour by Sara DonatiThe Gilded Age by Mark TwainA Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler
Gilded Age New York (fiction and nonfiction)
121 books — 40 voters
North and South by Elizabeth GaskellLyddie by Katherine PatersonThe Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate AlcottSo Far From Home by Barry DenenbergThe Blue Door by Ann Rinaldi
Textile Mill Fiction
105 books — 32 voters

The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate AlcottMrs. Somebody Somebody by Tracy WinnCall the Darkness Light by Nancy ZaroulisUnravelling by Elizabeth GraverLyddie by Katherine Paterson
Lowell Mills
55 books — 7 voters
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine PatersonLyddie by Katherine PatersonSo Far From Home by Barry DenenbergThe Blue Door by Ann RinaldiCounting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop
Textile Mills in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
47 books — 7 voters

Titan by Ron ChernowThe Lady of Sing Sing by Idanna PucciThe Infamous Harry Hayward by Shawn Francis PetersHetty by Charles SlackThomas Nast by Albert Bigelow Paine
Gilded Age Biographies (nonfiction)
134 books — 7 voters
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine PatersonFighting for Bread and Roses by Lynn A. ColemanThe Cry of the Street by Mabel FarnumCity in Amber by Jay AtkinsonBread and Roses by Bruce Watson
Bread and Roses
12 books — 2 voters

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