A New England Girlhood
by Lucy Larcom
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In 1835 Lucy Larcon went to work in the Mills in Massachusetts. Lucy spent ten years working in the mills and during that time she wrote poems and songs about mill life. Her works brought attention to the conditions the mill workers endured. This book is an excellent example of the life of a child in the 19th century.Tags
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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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- Original publication date
- 1889
- Important places
- New England, USA; Beverly, Massachusetts, USA
- Epigraph
- Happy those early days, when I
Shined in my angel-infancy!
--When on some gilded cloud or flower
My gazing soul would dwell an hour,
And in those weaker glories spy
Some shadows of eternity: ---
Before ... (show all)I taught my tongue to wound
My conscience by a sinful sound; --
But felt through all this fleshly dress
Bright shoots of everlastingness.
HENRY VAUGHAN.
The thought of our past years in me doth breed
Perpetual benediction.
WORDSWORTH. - Dedication
- I DEDICATE THIS SKETCH
TO MY GIRL FRIENDS IN GENERAL
AND IN PARTICULAR
TO MY NAMESAKE NIECE
LUCY LARCOM SPAULDING - First words
- It is strange that the spot of earth where we were born should make such a difference to us.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In the words of one of our honored elder writers, given in reply to a youthful aspirant who had asked for some points of her "literary career,"--"I never had a career."
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