Lowell Offering, No. 10-11 (December 1841)
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Issue of the Lowell Offering, a periodical of prose and verse written by women mill operatives in Lowell, Massachusetts, dated December 1841. It contains allegorical sketches ("Leaves" from the port-folio of a dreamer), the serialized story "Harriet Greenough" about a farm girl who goes to work in the Newburyport mills, the fairy tale "The Princess," an account of a second visit to the Shakers, essays, and poems. It also includes three pages of hymn music and engravings of the Unitarian Church and the Appleton Street Congregationalist Church in Lowell. There is no weaving content; it is mainly useful for the literary and social history of New England mill girls.
- Type
- Periodical
- Date
- December 1841
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 64
- Archive notes
- Digital photography from microfilm
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