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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.


Source | Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1889).
Creator | Lucy Larcom
Item Type | Biography/Autobiography
Cite This document | Lucy Larcom, “A Former Lowell Girl Remembers Working in the Mills (with text supports),” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed April 26, 2024, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1818.

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