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 ; introduction by Jane Wilkins Pultz.
Lowell sixty years ago -- Child-life in the Lowell cotton mills -- The little mill-girl's alma mater -- The characteristics of the early factory girls -- The Lowell Offering and its writers -- Brief biographies of some of the writers for The Lowell Offering -- The cotton factory of to-day.
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.
