The Lowell Mill Girls: Life in the Factory (Perspectives on History Series)

Tan softcover, bibliography, endnotes, appendix, 15 b/w line illustrations. *** The famous 'mill girls' (many Universalists) working in textile factories of Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s, organized, published their own literary paper, and some became celebrities. *** Contents: Lowell History at a Glance, by Arthur L. Eno Jr. Mill Girls of Lowell, by Verena Rybicki. Letter to Hannah, by Shirley Gifford, illustrated by Susan Lippman. Spirit of Discontent, by Almira, a Lowell mill girl. Beauties of our Factory System, or, Lowell Slavery, by Amelia Sargent.