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Pages: 40
Authors: Emily Arnold McCully
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
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A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first w
The Daring Ladies of Lowell
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Kate Alcott
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-25 - Publisher: Anchor

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“Alice is cast in the mold of a character created by an earlier Alcott, the passionate and spunky Jo March. A refreshingly old-fashioned heroine, she makes TH
Loom and Spindle
Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson
Categories: Factory system
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-16 - Publisher: Applewood Books

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Author Harriet Robinson (1825-1911), born Harriet Jane Hanson in Boston, offers a first person account of her life as a factory girl in Lowell, Massachusetts in
Good Girl Work
Language: en
Pages: 104
Authors: Catherine Gourley
Categories: Business & Economics
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Discusses the girls and women in the industrial workforce of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the reforms and movements that changed their work
Girl in Blue
Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: Ann Rinaldi
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

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As a teen, Sarah Wheelock has vowed never to let a man control her. With this conviction, she leaves her life on a Michigan farm, disguises herself as a boy, an