Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
Lizzy and Josh have their friendship put to the test when Lizzy's father joins the reform movement, which puts him in confrontation with Josh's father, the wealthy mill owner.
An anthology of letters, stories, essays, and sketches written by the female employees of the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, and printed in their own literary magazine.
Examines the role in history of the occupations involved with the making of cloth and clothing including spinners, weavers, cloth finishers, tailors and dressmakers, milliners, hatters, and shoemakers and other leatherworkers.
During the potato famine, young Mary Driscoll leaves her Ireland home for Lowell, Massachusetts, where deplorable working conditions and a false accusation of murder force her to rally more courage than she thought she had.
Twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate to Indiana along with other Georgia millworkers during the Civil War, leaves her mother with a promise to return home as soon as the war ends.
An overview of life in a nineteenth-century town in which most people worked in the textile mill, including their housing, food, clothing, schools, and everyday activities.
