Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll

Illustrated by John Tenniel

Illustrated by John Tenniel
Pig and Pepper
Lucy Larcom is one of the best-known mill girls. In this book, she describes her early years in Massachusetts.
CHAPTER IVTHE DEATH OF MY MOTHER— I MEET MISS CHRISTABEL PANKHURST — THE FIRST MILITANT ACT — THROWN OUT OF THE FREE TRADE HALL MEETING Christmas, 1904, and the beginning of the New Year, 1905, were weeks of sadness and grave anxiety on account of my mother’s health. She was too ill for Christmas festivities,…
SWEEPING A CROSSING. “Spare a copper! Spare a copper!” Every Londoner knows the hackneyed phrase. Walking one day from Oxford Circus to Charing Cross, I heard it fourteen times. “Help a poor chap!” “Pity an old sweep!” These were the variations which occasionally broke the monotony of the appeal. Into each outstretched hand I dropped…
Chapter 18 Mord Em’ly paid another visit to the registry office, where her name and a shilling had been recorded with some desire to see if the unexpected happened. Her vague hopes were that she might obtain an engagement at some distant dining-rooms, where she could remain in hiding until Wetherell had forgotten her; that…
CHAPTER I.LOWELL SIXTY YEARS AGO. “That wonderful city of spindles and looms, And thousands of factory folk.” The life of a people or of a class is best illustrated by its domestic scenes, or by character sketches of the men and women who form a part of it. The historian is a species of mental…