Chapter IChildhood All through my life, at least all my thinking life, I have been on a quest. My search has been with one object in view, and that object has been to find myself. I did not know when I started that Walt Whitman had said, “A man is not all included between his…
Memories of a Militant byAnnie Kenney LONDONEDWARD ARNOLD & CO.1924 The reader will not get far into this volume without falling in love with Miss Annie Kenney, however strongly opposed he may have been to the Suffragette campaign. The fight is over and the angry passions roused by it have subsided, so that in a…
Life in poor London
Lucy Larcom is one of the best-known mill girls. In this book, she describes her early years in Massachusetts.
Chapter 12: From the Merrimack to the Mississippi
Chapter 11: Reading and Studying
Chapter 10: Mill-Girls’ Magazines
Chapter 9: Mountain-Friends
Chapter 8: By the River
Chapter 7: Beginning to Work