The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1945)

by Benita Eisler

Book Overview

The Mill Women of Lowell, Massachusetts--the first female industrial wage earners in the United States--were a new social and economic phenomenon in American society. In the 1830s and 1840s, drawn by the highest wages offered to female employees anywhere in America, they sought and found independence and opportunity in the country's first planned industrial community.

Even after long work hours, the women found time and energy to write about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393316858
• ISBN13: 9780393316858
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Undiminishing usefulness and interest.

I bought and read this fine collection of stories and essays from the Lowell Offering, the publication edited and written by the young women and girls who worked in the Lowell, Mass. textile mills in the first half of the 1840s, when it was first published. And I have found myself referring back to it and recommending it to others ever since. It is an important introduction to working women's literature.

Extremely helpful as a research tool.

Eisler's collection of pieces from The Lowell Offering is arranged in a user-friendly manner, but is limited in its content. If one cannot get one's hands on the original publications, however, this work is a great stand-in. Highly recommended as a research instrument, as articles are fully footnoted.