A New England Girlhood: Outlined from Memory (Outlines from Memory)

Larcom, Lucy

ISBN 10: 0930350820 / ISBN 13: 9780930350826

Edité par Northeastern, 1985

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0930350820 Spine crease. Pages are like new. No highlighting. No underlining.

N° de réf. du vendeur 0930350820NE

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• Titre: A New England Girlhood: Outlined from Memory (Outlines from Memory)
• Éditeur: Northeastern
• Date de parution: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0930350820
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780930350826
• Reliure: PAPERBACK
• État de l'article: Very Good

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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.