Singer and the Sewing Machine: A Capitalist Romance by Ruth Brandon, Ruth Brandon

Singer and the Sewing Machine: A Capitalist Romance

Ruth Brandon, Ruth Brandon

244 pages first pub 1977 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional informative sad medium-paced
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Women, booze, illegitimate children, fraud, bigamy, 19th-century capitalism, and the emergence of an empire . . . . These words describe the life of Isaac Merritt Singer. Although widely regarded as the inventor of the sewing machine, Singer actua...

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