Loom and spindle, or, Life among the early mill girls : with a sketch of "The Lowell offering" and some of its contributors / by Harriet H. Robinson ; introd. by Jane Wilkins Pultz.
"Loom and Spindle" is the rich, warmly humorous, and honest memoir of Harriet Hanson Robinson, who went work in the cotton mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, at the age of ten, in 1835. Her account is one of the true classics of America's coming of age, and one of the few records that we...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Kailua, Hawaii :
Press Pacifica,
1976.
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Edition: | Revised edition. |
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Summary: | "Loom and Spindle" is the rich, warmly humorous, and honest memoir of Harriet Hanson Robinson, who went work in the cotton mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, at the age of ten, in 1835. Her account is one of the true classics of America's coming of age, and one of the few records that we have of the working woman in the early nineteenth century. -- From publisher's description. |
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Physical Description: | xii, 128 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
ISBN: | 0916630013 9780916630010 0916630021 9780916630027 |