The Lowell Offering
Subtitle: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1845)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: December 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780393316858
First sentence: Thinly disguised reportage, "Letters from Susan" and "Tales of Factory Life" illustrate the ways in which the boardinghouse served as a "mediating structure" in the transformation of farm girl into factory operative.