Loom and Spindle Or, Life among the Early Mill Girls; with a Sketch of the Lowell Offering and Some of Its Contributors

Name: Loom and Spindle Or, Life among the Early Mill Girls; with a Sketch of the Lowell Offering and Some of Its Contributors
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ISBN: 9781429045247

ISBN-10: 1429045248

ISBN-13: 9781429045247

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Authors: Harriet Robinson

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Author Harriet Robinson (1825-1911), born Harriet Jane Hanson in Boston, offers a first person account of her life as a factory girl in Lowell, Massachusetts in this 1898 work. Robinson moved with her widowed mother and three siblings to Lowell as the cotton industry was booming, and began working as a bobbin duffer at the age of ten for $2 a week. Her reflections of the life, some 60 years later, are unfailingly upbeat. She was educated, in public school, by private lesson, and in church. The community was tightly knit. She also had the opportunity to write poetry and prose for the factory girls' literary magazine The Lowell Offering. When mill girls returned to their rural family homes,…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Applewood Books
Publication date: 3/16/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English