The Lowell Offering 

Writings by New England Mill Women


The industrial revolution in nineteenth-century New England, in the words of the workers.

Many mill girls contributed their writing to their own publication, the Lowell Offering.  In 1842, Harriet Farley and Harriot Curtis became co-editors of the Lowell Offering.  

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Tales of Factory Life, No. 1 (1841)
The Spirit of Discontent (1840)
Letters from Susan, Letter Second [fiction] (1844)

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