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…

Chapter 5 A large, square, green-walled room, with a shuffling crowd at the back; before her, a thoughtful, middle-aged gentleman, on a raised platform, seated at a desk, and signing, with a noisy pen, some blue forms, for which a clerk waited; at the side, two lads, with pencils, one telling the other, in a…

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