Write An Essay On Lucy Larcom's Life

It was 1813, Lucy Larcom's father had died and had to step up to take control and work in the mill. She most likely had a reason to step up, possibly the oldest or one of the middle children that wasn’t married yet. She earned 1 dollar a week and was ready for college but she couldn’t go because her family needed her and her money to help them survive. She was 12-13 years old and had a paying job much like the other girls whose fathers had passed away or couldn’t work for some reason. She could only go to school for 3 months during a break from working but she could not go to highschool because her family had no money. Even though society is saying bad things about them but they looked up to them for their independence and their strength. Women
As a lady if you wanted to go out on your own and live alone you couldn’t, woman are not allowed to own land and you couldn’t make very much money. You have to have a man in the house because they have to buy land and make money for a living where as women are left home with the kids. If a father dies in a family or a husband dies in a family then the oldest brother in the family takes over the whole household. If you have a 6 year old little brother in a family with older sisters and a mother then the brother would get to decide who the girls married and who did what around the house. Being in a family with no brothers and no husband meant that they had to rely on an uncle or the oldest sister that was still in the household to step up and take a job at the mill so they would still get money flow coming into their house. Being a woman that worked would be unusual and you would get people saying things to you like “Women shouldn’t be here, they don’t deserve this job” or “She’s a woman she should be at home with her children not here where she could get hurt.” Personally I think this is unfair and shouldn’t be true because women can do just as much as men can and they deserve to be treated equally no matter