Hyne, Cutcliffe: Thompson's Progress (1902); v1, 26 Aug 2019
 

The rise of Tom Thompson from illiterate child pit labourer to wealth in 19th century Bradford during the heyday of the wool and weaving boom.

Told in twelve cheerful episodes, as the hero outwits both financial and social limitations and opponents, and marries the girl of his heart.

1: The Schoolmaster’s Fee
2: The Profitable Strike
3: The Philanthropist
4: The Might-have-been Mrs Thompson
5: Black Thursday
6: The Spanish Army Clothing Contract
7: That Craze for Mohair
8: Their Mr Bent
9: Cockpit Copper-mine
10: The Tenor and the Man
11: The New Groove
12: Treaty-makers