A New England Girlhood

1889

Lucy Larcom's memoir of a Beverly and Lowell childhood: a shipmaster's daughter who went into the cotton mills at eleven and wrote for the mill girls' own magazine, the Lowell Offering. An account of New England girlhood in the 1830s and 1840s, written in 1889.

Preface
Chapter I Up and Down the Lane
Chapter II Schoolroom and Meeting-House
Chapter III The Hymn-Book
Chapter IV Naughty Children and Fairy Tales
Chapter V Old New England
Chapter VI Glimpses of Poetry
Chapter VII Beginning to Work
Chapter VIII By the River
Chapter IX Mountain-Friends
Chapter X Mill-Girls' Magazines
Chapter XI Reading and Studying
From the Merrimack to the Mississippi