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 this 1898 work.
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She was educated, in public school, by private lesson, and in church.
Her reflections of the life, Some 60 years later, are unfailingly upbeat.
Robinson moved With her widowed mother and three siblings to Lowell as the cotton industry was booming, and began working as a bobbin duffer at the age of ten for $2 a week.
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 this 1898 work