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This chapter had some really interesting information on the reality of the social expectations and education levels of the mill girls, as well as how hard the work was at the time. I have an entirely different perspective on what it must have been like at the time. I think I would have liked to have been a mill girl in the early days. You work hard, but so many options for education and access to libraries! Yes!

There are so many fascinating things I didn't know about history. I didn't know the Universalist church and the Unitarians were two different churches, nor that they existed in the 1830s. I also didn't realize there was a church at the time that challenged the ideas in the Bible and focused on morals instead of religious doctrine. I expected to read about the mill girls, but I'm reading about so much more!

This book was purchased after being given the link to a copy of the original online by my history instructor after choosing the Lowell mill strikes as the topic for my paper. I am not disappointed. This book went to publication the same year my grandfather was born, and I am surprised at the ease of reading for a book so old! I am also not surprised at the level of "kids will be kids."

This amazing book is written by one of the "mill girls" from Lowell Massachusettes. I'd always thought - as many do - that these poor girls were pretty much slave labor. And in later days, there was definitely some of that going on. But in the earliest days of the industrial revolution? Wow! These girls had literery clubs, lectures, etc. and earned money to send a brother to college or pay off the home mortgage. WOW!

This amazing book is written by one of the "mill girls" from Lowell Massachusettes. I'd always thought - as many do - that these poor girls were pretty much slave labor. And in later days, there was definitely some of that going on. But in the earliest days of the industrial revolution? Wow! These girls had literery clubs, lectures, etc. and earned money to send a brother to college or pay off the home mortgage. WOW!