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
Down the Rabbit-Hole
The European Slave Trade in English Girls byAlfred S. Dyer London: Dyer Brothers Amen Corner, Paternoster Row1880 IN order properly to understand the subject of the foreign slave traffic in English girls, it is necessary to know something of the system of slavery, which this traffic exists to supply with victims. In nearly every country…
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,…
Chapter 2 All the members of the Gilliken Gang possessed the privilege which the London girl demands—that of having their evenings for their very own. Some were engaged in a large mineral water factory in Albany Road; two walked over Blackfriars Bridge to the City every morning; the remainder did nothing of a definite character….
Chapter 2: Schoolroom and Meeting-House
Life in poor London