Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)
Author of A New England Girlhood
About the Author
Image credit: Lucy Larcom (1824-1893), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Works by Lucy Larcom
Associated Works
Written by Herself, Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women (1992) — Contributor — 453 copies, 6 reviews
America's Working Women: A Documentary History 1600 to the Present (1976) — Contributor, some editions — 158 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1824-03-05
- Date of death
- 1893-04-17
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Illinois, USA
- Occupations
- teacher
editor
writer - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Beverly, Massachusetts, USA
- Places of residence
- Beverly, Massachusetts, USA (birth)
Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Illinois, USA
Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, USA - Place of death
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Burial location
- Central Cemetery, Beverly, Massachusetts, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- Massachusetts, USA
Members
Reviews
Larcom's language is elegant, but in the end I often wanted more specifics of life, and less rhetoric. It read more like an extended essay on the transformation of child to adult, and the beginnings of a writer, as opposed to an autobiography. I enjoyed it well enough, but there wasn't anything here to drive me to ever come back to it for any purpose, or pass it on to another reader unless the book could appeal to extremely specific tastes on the other reader's part.
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Statistics
- Works
- 13
- Also by
- 11
- Members
- 111
- Popularity
- #175,483
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 30