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A New England girlhood: outlined from memory
Lucy Larcom
Book Overview:
Lucy Larcom was an American poet, teacher, and mil-worker. According to Wikipedia: "Larcom served as a model for the change in women's roles in society." This is her colorful autobiography. Here, she tells about her happy childhood, and her time working in the mill. Along the way, she speaks about topics like morality, independence, love and loss inside a family, a strong belief in god, and the effects of being poor. Fans of Gene Stratton Porter, Fanny Fern and Susan Warner, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox will be delighted with this book. Lucy's sunny personality makes this book a very uplifting and interesting read.
Lucy Larcom was an American poet, teacher, and mil-worker. According to Wikipedia: "Larcom served as a model for the change in women's roles in society." This is her colorful autobiography. Here, she tells about her happy childhood, and her time working in the mill. Along the way, she speaks about topics like morality, independence, love and loss inside a family, a strong belief in god, and the effects of being poor. Fans of Gene Stratton Porter, Fanny Fern and Susan Warner, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox will be delighted with this book. Lucy's sunny personality makes this book a very uplifting and interesting read.
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I had various reasons for my preferences. With some, I was caught by a melodious echo, or a sonorous ring; with others by the hint of a picture, or a story, or by some sacred suggestion that attracted me, I knew not why. Of some I was fond just because I misunderstood them; and of these I made a free version in my mind, as I murmured them over. One of my first favorites was certainly rather a singular choice for a child of three or four years. I had no idea of its meaning, but made up a little story out of it, with myself as the heroine. It began with the words—
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Community Reviews
This book was a pleasant surprise. I found it fascinating and the writing beautiful. I feel like I traveled in time and had a glimpse of a vanished world. Here's a little taste.
"When supper was finished, and the tea-kettle was pushed back on the crane, and the backlog had been reduced to a heap of f
This fascinating autobiography reminds me of so many things - from my own New England childhood to the reason why one really needs to consult original sources. Somehow I had never thought of mill girls in the 1800s going to college! But some did!
It was my second listen and likely not my last.
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A Pressed Flower Whose Scent Has Long Gone
People in the following three categories will find this book interesting and useful : 1) feminists interested in 19th century women's lives and attitudes; 2) researchers into New England morals and values as expressed in exhortatory literature of the 19th ce
Well, I have a new favorite to add to my collection. What a remarkable account of an interesting, romantic woman. I have had so many of these thoughts before... amazing to read them in an account from 1880. Will definitely be re-visiting this one.
Still not sure why this is her most famous work.