A Factory Girl Remembers Mill Work
1) Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) was a young girl who got caught up during the Market Revolution during her young age. She was around eleven years of age when she was required to work at a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts to help support her large family handled by a single mother after her father died. The market revolution caused a vast and devastating effect upon the daily lives of the ordinary citizen as the work was shifted from home to factories. As she mentions in her memoir she had to give up most of her childhood so did the other girls who worked with her in the mills. They were paid a dollar and a quarter a week for the expenses which likely was not enough. To continue their education to high school
1) Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) was a young girl who got caught up during the Market Revolution during her young age. She was around eleven years of age when she was required to work at a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts to help support her large family handled by a single mother after her father died. The market revolution caused a vast and devastating effect upon the daily lives of the ordinary citizen as the work was shifted from home to factories. As she mentions in her memoir she had to give up most of her childhood so did the other girls who worked with her in the mills. They were paid a dollar and a quarter a week for the expenses which likely was not enough. To continue their education to high school