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Loom and spindle : $b or life among the early mill girls with a sketch of "the Lowell offering" and some of its contributors
by Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson
Chapters
11 totalINTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I. LOWELL SIXTY YEARS AGO.
CHAPTER II. CHILD-LIFE IN THE LOWELL COTTON-MILLS.
CHAPTER III. THE LITTLE MILL-GIRL’S ALMA MATER.
CHAPTER IV. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EARLY FACTORY GIRLS.
CHAPTER V. CHARACTERISTICS (CONTINUED).
CHAPTER VI. THE LOWELL OFFERING AND ITS WRITERS.
CHAPTER VII. THE LOWELL OFFERING (CONTINUED).
CHAPTER VIII. BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF SOME OF THE WRITERS FOR THE LOWELL OFFERING.
CHAPTER IX. THE COTTON-FACTORY OF TO-DAY.
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Language
en
Duration
~4 hours (271K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1898.
Credits
Susan E., Fay Dunn and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2024-01-19
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson
1825–1911
A mill worker turned writer and reformer, she left one of the clearest firsthand accounts of life in the early Lowell textile mills. Her story connects industrial America, women’s work, and the long push for social and political rights.
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