Lowell Offering, No. 6 (August 1841)
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Issue No. 6 (August 1841) of the Lowell Offering, a periodical of writings by women who worked in the Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills. It opens with the serialized story "Susan Miller," about a farm girl whose father dies of drink and who decides to work in the Lowell factory to pay off the family mortgage, with debate about the reputation of factory girls. The rest is essays and poems, including "Choice of Friends," "The Whortleberry Excursion" (which mentions homewoven coverlet patterns), "Lessons of Flowers," "Beauty," "Lowell Cemetery," "A Weaver's Reverie," and "A New Society." Engraved illustrations show Lowell's First Congregationalist and Methodist churches.
- Type
- Periodical
- Date
- August 1841
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 32
- Archive notes
- Digital photography from microfilm
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