A New England Girlhood: Outlined From Memory

Larcom, Lucy

ISBN 10: 0930350820 / ISBN 13: 9780930350826

Edité par Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1985

A propos de cet article

Good in paperback, edges show some shelf wear, "used" stamped on bottom edge, wordes "hymns & poetry" hand written on title page, littel hightlighting and some markings,Originally published in 1889,

N° de réf. du vendeur 005557

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A New England Girlhood: Outlined From Memory
• Éditeur: Northeastern University Press, Boston
• Date de parution: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0930350820
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780930350826
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket

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Synopsis

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) was an American poet. Larcom was the ninth of ten children. She left Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1835 to work in the cotton mills in Lowell from the ages of 11 to 21. As a mill girl she hoped to earn some extra money for her family. While working at the mills in Lowell, Lucy made a huge impact. She wrote and published many of her songs, poems, and letters describing her life at the mills. Her idealistic poems caught the attention of John Greenleaf Whittier. Larcom served as a model for the change in women's roles in society. In the 1840s, she taught at a school in Illinois before returning to Massachusetts. From 1865 to 1873, she was the editor of Our Young Folks, later renamed St. Nicholas Magazine. Larcom penned one of the best accounts of New England childhood of her time, A New England Girlhood, commonly used as a reference in studying early American childhood. Her relatives live in the Greater Boston area, Tampa area, and Orange County, California.