Lowell Offering, No. 2 (December 1840)
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Issue No. 2 (December 1840) of the Lowell Offering, a periodical of original essays, poems and sketches written by women working in the Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills. It opens with a defense of factory girls against Orestes Brownson's charge that mill work brings infamy, and includes a piece on the pleasures of factory life, along with sentimental verse, moral essays, a satirical piece on old maids and old bachelors, and an imaginary tour of the planets. The issue is of interest for the social history of New England mill operatives, not for weaving technique.
- Type
- Periodical
- Date
- December 1840
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 16
- Archive notes
- Scanned from microfilm
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