Mind Amongst the Spindles
Mind Amongst the Spindles

Author: Charles Knight

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 2010-08-03

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1429041315

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From 1840-1845, the factory girls who worked in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts wrote, edited, and published their own literary magazine. This selection of pieces from "The Lowell Offering" was originally published in 1844.

Mind Amongst the Spindles
Mind Amongst the Spindles

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Published: 1845

Total Pages: 230

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Collected poems and stories from The Lowell Offering, a monthly literary periodical first published in 1844 and written by the working-class women of the Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills. In this collection, authors are identified by initials or first names only; works largely focus on the virtues of dedication and hard work.

Mind Amongst the Spindles. A Miscellany, Wholly Composed by the Factory Girls
Mind Amongst the Spindles. A Miscellany, Wholly Composed by the Factory Girls

Author: Various

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-25

Total Pages: 211

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This is a captivating collection of poems and stories from The Lowell Offering, an 1800s monthly literary periodical written by the working-class women of the Lowell, Massachusetts, textile mills. The poems and stories primarily focus on the virtues of devotion and hard work. The authors in this collection are identified by initials or first names only.

Loom and Spindle
Loom and Spindle

Author: Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 2011-03-16

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1429045248

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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, she says, "...instead of being looked down upon as 'factory girls, ' they were more often welcomed as coming from the metropolis, bringing new fashions, new books, and new ideas with them."