Lowell Offering, No. 9 (November 1841)
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Issue No. 9 (November 1841) of the Lowell Offering, a periodical of prose and verse written by women mill workers in Lowell, Massachusetts. It contains moral tales, sketches and poems, including the narrative 'Fortune-Telling', 'Tales of Factory Life No. 2: The Orphan Sisters' about two sisters who go to work in the Lowell mills, an essay 'Aristocracy of Employment', a visit to a Shaker village, temperance pieces with a page of musical rounds, and 'The Life of a Pocket Testament'. Engravings of two Lowell churches (First Freewill Baptist and John Street Congregationalist) are included.
- Type
- Periodical
- Date
- November 1841
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 31
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