The Characteristics of the Early Factory Girls

The Lowell Offering (Continued)

Chapter 17 The sergeant’s wife declared herself sorry, but her mother was coming the next day, and the spare room had to be at once prepared for that lady’s reception. The sergeant’s wife wished Mord Em’ly could have stayed on, and the infant Highlander was also full of regret, but it could not be helped….

Chapter 6 Although, for some time, Mord Em’ly clung persistently to her attitude of reserve, there was little in the Home that escaped her attention. Conducted on the cottage system, the detached buildings bordered an oval, green space, with, at one end, the school-rooms and the infirmary. Each cottage had a “mother” in charge; usually…