LOOM AND SPINDLE; Or, life among the early mill girls. With a sketch of "The Lowell Offering" and some of its contributors
1976 · Kailua, HI
by ROBINSON, Harriet H.
Kailua, HI: Press Pacifica, 1976. Revised edition of the 1898 publication. 8vo, pp. xii, 128. A nice copy in dj with taped-on glassine cover. Memoir of a woman who went to work in the Lowell mills in 1835 at the age of 10, at a time when conditions there were comparatively tolerable. She went on to be active in the abolition and women's suffrage movements. (Inventory #: 43474)