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.
"Moving to the mill city of Lowell in 1832 to escape farm life, young Alice is disillusioned by the local factory's 8arsh working conditions and struggles to advocate on their behalf while recklessly falling in love with the mill owner's son, a situation that is complicated by a murder and sensational trial"--OCLC.
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.
Describes the working conditions experienced by women laborers in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, with first-hand accounts, photographs, journal entries, and more.
Lucy Larcom, Harriet Hanson Robinson, Sarah G. Bagley
Selden, Bernice
1983
Focuses on the lives of Lucy Larcom, Harriet Hanson Robinson, and Sarah G. Bagley, who survived the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to become dynamic and ideal nineteenth-century women.
In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveeals a great longing for her family.
