Mill Girl Letter Textile Mill 4132 Millbury Ave. Lowell‚ Mass. January 6th‚ 1848 Dear family and friends‚ It has been four months since I left the farm for New England to work at the textile mill. I Have 7 months more until my work period is over on July 3rd. When I first arrived at the mill I was in shock and amazement at the size of the building. I think it’s because I haven’t seen anything bigger than our church. Soon after arriving I was assigned
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Mary Paul left Vermont for the Lowell Mills as an economic necessity of the times‚ leaving her father in an attempt to strike it out on her own. From her intimate and painstakingly detailed letters to her family‚ we can assume that she provides a very accurate account of her day to day life. She was a millworker who sought out an honest pay. Around the same time‚ through her writings‚ we can meet author Harriet Robinson’s as a child in Boston. She moved to Lowell with her mother‚ but her story not
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The Lords and the Mill Girls is a chapter in the Portrait of America book that details how democratic ideals do not mix well with the profit motive. One such example of this was the Lowell Mill in Massachusetts; originally it was a famous international attraction‚ a model of enlightened industrial management. Unfortunately‚ Lowell mill changed. It gradually became like the everyday grim and crowded mill town‚ another "squalid slum." Women getting the short end of the stick has been a prominent
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Nisha Mahase Prof. Larry Hartzell July 25‚ 2012 Hist 135 In “Women‚ Work and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills‚” the author talks about the working life and it’s foundation in the early industrial revolution by talking about the Lowell Mill girls. During this time‚ America was undergoing a transformation from agricultural country to a powerful industrialized nation. Today‚ men are holding more strenuous factory jobs but back in those days‚ women occupied them. Most women were
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One mile west of Flagstaff‚ Arizona stands a mesa known as Mars Hill‚ which provides unobstructed views of the sky. Perched on the top of the mesa is the historic Lowell Observatory‚ built in 1894 by Percival Lowell. Today‚ Lowell Observatory is still the center of space research and discoveries. Lowell Observatory happily welcomes the public to experience the historic landmark and museums. Filled with telescopes‚ museums‚ and collections the 750-acre facility offers plenty of activities. The excitement
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Away From home: Working girls of Lowell essay The American economy was growing and changing in the mid 1800’s and new technology meant more demand for work. With the demand for work increasing the work place also changed from just men working to both men and women working. This new trend was set in Lowell‚ Massachusetts by a man named Cabot Lowell. Cabot had seen the textile factories in England and he wanted to make sure that his factories were not as dirty as the ones in England
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Amy Lowell was born in Brookline‚ Massachusetts on February 9‚ 1874. She was the daughter of Augustus Lowell and Katherine Bigelow Lawrence. Both her mother and father were from New England aristocrats. Aristocrats are wealthy and prominent members of society. Her father‚ Augustus‚ was a businessman‚ civic leader‚ and horticulturalist. Lowell’s mother‚ Katherine‚ was an accomplished musician and linguist. Lowell was‚ although‚ considered as “almost disreputable‚” poets ran in the Lowell family
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whether the mills in Lowell‚ Massachusetts were a new beginning for them‚ or the end of it all. In the early to mid 1800’s‚ Francis C. Lowell‚ an American born and raised in Massachusetts‚ created mills to generate a working place for women and children. While the mills provided shelter and money for girls‚ these were considered dead end jobs. The mills were hazardous‚ the hours were long‚ and the wages were low‚ which caused most workers to become upset and exhausted. Granted‚ the mills allowed women
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"There is Lowell‚ who’s striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme ; He might get on alone‚ spite of brambles and boulders But he can’t with that bundle he has on his shoulders ; " -Fable for Critics‚ Lowell James Russell Lowell was a father and a husband‚ but most importantly he was a man of literature. Lowell’s works were greatly influenced by those around him‚ events
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"Decade" by Amy Lowell. When you came‚ you were like red wine and honey‚ And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. Now you are like morning bread‚ Smooth and pleasant. I hardly taste you at all for I know your savour‚ But I am completely nourished. Amy Lowell produced the majority of her poems after her acquaintance with the actress Ada Russell‚ a widow eleven years older than Lowell‚ with whom she shared the last thirteen years of her life. Russell became Lowell’s beloved companion
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