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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Brontë Studies on 18/12/17, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14748932.2018.1389154 ; This essay examines Charlotte Brontë's engagement with the textile industry from her earliest writings to her 1849 Condition of England novel Shirley in order to emphasise the role that Yorkshire and its staple industry played in her writing. Critics have discussed Brontë's interest in textile production largely in relation to Shirley. However, her fascination with cloth manufacturing is evident in many of her Angrian tales and some of her unfinished novels. This essay argues that through her early representations of mills and mill owners Brontë formulated an understanding of political conflict and masculine power which helped to shape her mature writing. This culminates in Shirley with her critique of the taboo against educated women entering careers in trade and manufacturing.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Introduction to Volume IV: The industrial revolution and the mass production of commodities -- Part 1 The context of manufacturing in Victorian Britain -- 1 'Peel's Velveteens' -- 2 George Dodd, Days at the Factories, or the Manufacturing Industries of Great Britain Described [extract] -- 3 Richard H. Horne, 'The Female School of Design in the Capital of the World' -- 4 Image: 'Calico Printing' -- 5 John Capper, 'The Northern Wizard' -- 6 Anon, 'Help for Women' -- 7 Karl Marx, 'The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof' -- 8 Anon, 'Sewing Machines' -- 9 Lyon Playfair, 'On Patents and the New Patent Bill' -- 10 J. T. Slugg, Reminiscences of Manchester Fifty Years Ago -- Part 2 Textiles -- 2.1 Fabrics -- 11 Edward Baines, History of Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain -- 12 Anon, 'A Day at the Nottingham Lace Manufactories' -- 13 Charles Dickens and W. H. Wills, 'Spitalfields' -- 14 John Capper, 'British Cotton' -- 15 Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South -- 16 Edward Baines, 'On the Woollen Manufacture of England -- With Special Reference to the Leeds Clothing District' -- 17 'The Diary of John Ward of Clitheroe, Weaver 1860-64' -- 18 Image: 'Cotton Printing' -- 19 Image: 'Wool Machinery' -- 20 Image: 'Weaving Looms' -- 21 Anon, 'Honiton Lace' -- 22 William Morris, 'Textile Fabrics' -- 23 Anon, 'French Lace' -- 2.2 Clothing -- 24 Thomas Hood, 'The Song of the Shirt' -- 25 Harriet Martineau, 'Rainbow Making' -- 26 Samuel Sidney, 'A Ladies' Warehouse' -- 27 Mrs Henry Wood, Mrs Halliburton's Troubles -- 28 Anon, 'Gloves' -- 29 Anon, 'A Crinoline Manufactory' -- 30 Edith Simcox, 'Eight Years of Co-operative Shirtmaking' -- 31 Ada Heather-Bigg, 'Women and the Glove Trade' -- 2.3 Carpets -- 32 'Carpets'.

This book is one of a five-volume series, Victorian Material Culture (general editors Tatiana Kontou and Vicky Mills), designed to present primary source materials on aspects of Victorian culture. This volume (volume IV) focuses on manufactured things, including textiles (fabrics, clothing, paper, carpets etc.), metal goods (cutlery, pins, locks etc.), and household items (including ceramics, glassware, soap, candles etc.). The volume's editors, Wynne and Yates, offer detailed introductions to each section as well as an extensive introduction to the whole volume, which demonstrates the significance of manufacturing to the political, social and cultural environment of the Victorian period.