Loom and spindle
by Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson, 1825-1911
- Title
- Loom and spindle : or life among the early mill girls with a sketch of "the Lowell offering" and some of its contributors
- Original Publication
- New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1898.
- Credits
- Susan E., Fay Dunn and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production
- Subject
- Lowell (Mass.) -- Social conditions
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 72757
- Release Date
- January 19, 2024
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Loom and Spindle
- 2.Untitled
- 3.Untitled
- 4.INTRODUCTION.
- 5.CONTENTS.
- 6.CHAPTER I. LOWELL SIXTY YEARS AGO.
- 7.CHAPTER II. CHILD-LIFE IN THE LOWELL COTTON-MILLS.
- 8.CHAPTER III. THE LITTLE MILL-GIRL’S ALMA MATER.
- 9.CHAPTER IV. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EARLY FACTORY GIRLS.
- 10.CHAPTER V. CHARACTERISTICS (CONTINUED).
- 11.CHAPTER VI. THE LOWELL OFFERING AND ITS WRITERS.
- 12.CHAPTER VII. THE LOWELL OFFERING (CONTINUED).
- 13.CHAPTER VIII. BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF SOME OF THE WRITERS FOR THE LOWELL OFFERING . — HARRIOT F. CURTIS, Editor of the Lowell Offering . — THE CURRIER SISTERS. — ELIZA JANE CATE. — MRS. BETSEY CHAMBERLAIN. — HARRIET FARLEY, Editor of The Lowell Offering and afterwards of the New England Offering . — MARGARET F. FOLEY. — LYDIA S. HALL. — HARRIET JANE HANSON. WRITTEN BY LUCY LARCOM. [3] — EMMELINE LARCOM. — LUCY LARCOM. — SARAH SHEDD. — ELIZABETH EMERSON TURNER. — CLEMENTINE AVERILL.
- 14.CHAPTER IX. THE COTTON-FACTORY OF TO-DAY. — Transcriber’s Note
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