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A Former Lowell Girl Remembers Working in the Mills (with text supports)
Lucy Larcom worked in the mills at Lowell as a young woman. In her memoir, written more than forty years later, she remembered how she and other young female mill workers felt about their jobs.
Tags: Lowell, Reading Supports
Item Type: Biography/Autobiography
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)
A Former Mill Girl Remembers the Lowell Strike of 1836 (with text supports)
Harriet Hanson Robinson began work in Lowell at the age of ten, later becoming an author and advocate of women's suffrage. In 1834 and 1836, the mill owners reduced wages, increased the pace of work, and raised the rent for the boardinghouses. The [...]
Tags: Lowell, Reading Supports
Item Type: Biography/Autobiography
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)