New England Girlhood Outlined from Memory Outlined from Memory

Arriving in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s after the death of her shipmaster father, the eleven-year-old Lucy Larcom went to work in a textile mill to help her family make ends meet. Originally published in 1889, her autobiography offers glimpses of the early years of the American factory system as well as of the social influences on her development. It remains an important and illuminating document of the Industrial Revolution and nineteenth-century cultural history.Larcom, Lucy is the author of 'New England Girlhood Outlined from Memory Outlined from Memory', published 1985 under ISBN 9780930350826 and ISBN 0930350820.