Loom and Spindle
Life Among the Early Mill Girls
by
Harriet H. Robinson

1898
Thomas Y. Crowell & Company
Boston: 100 Purchase Street
by
Harriet H. Robinson

1898
Thomas Y. Crowell & Company
Boston: 100 Purchase Street
A working-class girl in Victorian London starts as a member of a girl-gang, is sent to reform school, and ultimately makes good.
Chapter 7: Beginning to Work
The Lobster Quadrille
Chapter VII Myra’s Little Ram Elinor and Ruth had met in New York and taken the train up the river. They sat primly clasping box and bundle on the lengthwise seat near the door of the coach. “Strange that Myra did not make connections,” said Elinor, trying to keep her foot from tapping in eager…
Lucy Larcom is one of the best-known mill girls. In this book, she describes her early years in Massachusetts.
Chapter 9: Mountain-Friends