Peg Willis’s Reviews > Loom and Spindle > Status Update

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!