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Lowell Mill GirlsMaryland State Archives
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Lowell Mill GirlsMaryland State Archives
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Materials compiled in this document can be used by educators to fulfill the following National History Standards for Grades 5-12:
Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Standard 2: How the industrial revolution, increasing immigration, the rapid expansion of slavery, and the westward movement changed the lives of Americans and led toward regional tensions
Standard 2A: The student understands how the factory system and the transportation and market revolutions shaped regional patterns of economic development
5-12: Analyze how the factory system affected gender roles and changed the lives of men, women, and children. [Analyze cause-and-effect relationships]
DESCRIPTION: Time Table of the Lowell Mills
CREATED/PUBLISHED: October 21, 1851
REPOSITORY: Courtesy of Baker Library, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard UniversityDESCRIPTION: The Lowell Offering: A Letter From Miss Martineau
CREATED/PUBLISHED: September 28, 1844 in The Living Age... (Volume 2, Issue 20, pp. 502-503)
SOURCE: The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
REPOSITORY: Cornell UniversityDESCRIPTION: Among Lowell Mill Girls: A Reminiscence.
AUTHOR: Lucy Larcom
CREATED/PUBLISHED: November 1881 in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 48, Issue 289
SOURCE: The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
REPOSITORY: Cornell UniversityDESCRIPTION: Massachusetts in the woman suffrage movement. A general, political, legal and legislative history from 1774, to 1881.
AUTHOR: Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
CREATED/PUBLISHED: Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1883
NOTES: Harriet Hanson was a Lowell mill operative in the 1830s and 1840s when she wrote "Loom and Spindle." In 1848, she married William Stevens Robinson, editor of the "Lowell Courier." After the Civil War both Harriet and her husband became steadfast supporters of woman suffrage. This book by Robinson deals with the woman suffrage campaign in Massachusetts from 1774 to 1881. The writing is rather dry, but it includes a very good 88-page appendix containing a detailed description of the Lowell Mill; accounts of various attempts by women to gain limited access to voting rights; and statistical information on women's employment
SOURCE: Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
REPOSITORY: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Uses of Liberty Rhetoric Among Lowell Mill Girls
Methods of Reform: The Lowell Mill Girls. From the UMBC Center for History Education, Teaching American History Lesson Plans.
Understanding Primary Sources: The Mill Girls of New England
"The Lowell Offering". The North American Review. (April 1841): 537-541.
Gutman, Herbert G. "Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America, 1815-1919." The American Historical Review, Vol. 78, No. 3. (Jun., 1973), pp. 531-588. [JSTOR]
Horwitz, Richard P. "Architecture and Culture: The Meaning of the Lowell Boarding House" American Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 1. (Mar., 1973), pp. 64-82. [Password required]
Robinson, Harriett H. "The Lowell Offering" The New England Magazine (December 1889): 461-467.
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October 21, 2005
