page_title: Lucy Larcom
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Lucy Larcom / Selected works
caption_attribution_description: File name:	06_04_000239Title:	LARCOM(1889) A New England girlhood, outlined from memoryDate issued:	1889Genre:	Book coversNotes:	Larcom, Lucy, 1824-1893 (Author)Collection:	Sarah Wyman Whitman BindingsLocation:	Boston Public Library, Special CollectionsRights:	No known copyright restrictions.
context_page_description: Lucy Larcom was an American teacher, poet, and author.
  In the 1840s, Larcom taught at a school in Illinois before returning to Massachusetts. She went on to become one of the first teachers at Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, and taught there from 1854 to 1862. While there, she helped to found Rushlight Literary Magazine, a submission-based student literary magazine which is still published today. From 1865 to 1873, she was the editor of the Boston-based Our Young Folks, which merged with St. Nicholas Magazine in 1874. In 1889, Larcom published one of the best-known accounts of New England childhood of her time, A New England Girlhood, commonly used as a reference in studying antebellum American childhood. This autobiographical text covers the early years of her life, in Beverly Farms and Lowell, Massachusetts.
  Among her earlier and best-known poems are "Hannah Binding Shoes," and "The Rose Enthroned," Larcom's earliest contribution to the Atlantic Monthly, when the poet Lowell was its editor, a poem, that in the absence of signature, was attributed to Emerson by one reviewer.
context_section_description: An Idyll of Work (1875)
  "Among Lowell Mill-Girls: A Reminiscence", Atlantic Monthly (November 1881)
  Wheaton Seminary; A Semi-Centennial Sketch, Cambridge. Riverside Press (1885)
  A New England Girlhood (1889)
  As It Is in Heaven (1893)
  "Landscape in American Poetry."  New York. Appleton and Company,(1879)
caption: A New England Girlhood, 1889
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