Chapter 15 To Mord Em’ly’s great relief, her father did not appear at the cemetery, and as, for some days after this, she heard nothing of him, she persuaded herself that he had disappeared. A letter came from Henry Barden, dated from Brindisi—a brief letter, which announced the arrival there of the P. & O….

Chapter VIIIBrief Biographies of Some of the Writers for the Lowell Offering It remains for me to give, so far as I have been able to glean them, the life-stories of a few of the most important of these mill-girl writers, some of them brief indeed, others perhaps of wider significance, but all telling a…

AMONG THE LAUNDRY-GIRLS. CHAPTER I.WHY AND HOW I BECAME ONE OF THEM. THE laundry question is like the domestic servant problem. It interests everyone in all classes of society. If it is true that “civilised man cannot live without cooks,” it is equally true that he cannot do without a laundress. Indeed, a man’s happiness…

Chapter 16 Mord Em’ly said good-bye to Mitchell’s Dining-Rooms, and Mrs. Mitchell kissed her, cried a good deal, and gave to her ten shillings over and above her wages, a number of ham sandwiches, and a bunch of coral that originally came (Mrs. Mitchell said) from goodness only knew where. Miss Mitchell so far unbent…