Books
- Lyddie by Katherine Patterson (historical fiction based on factual accounts of Lowell's mill girls)
- Lyddie Comprehension Questions
- Lyddie Discussion Questions
- Work, Earnings and Economics: Using 'Lyddie' by Katherine Patterson
- The Lowell Mill Girls by Alice K. Flanagan
- Kids on Strike! by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Chapter 1 (J331.892 BAR)
- Mill by David Macaulay
- [Primary Source] Loom and Spindle, or, Life Among the Early Mill Girls by Harriet Hanson Robinson (excellent!)
- [Primary Source] A New England Girlhood by Lucy Larcom
- The Beginning of a Revolution: Waltham and the Boston Manufacturing Company, from The Concord Review: A good overview on how the mills began and their lasting impact. (17 pgs; PDF)
- Center for Lowell History: Mill Life in Lowell 1820-1880
- Lowell Notes Handout on Lucy Larcom (.PDF)
- Lowell Mill Girl Interactive Activity
- Questions for Pondering About the Lowell Mill Girls
- Women and Factory Labor Lesson Plan utilizes Harriet Robinson's account of mill life (see above).
- The Mill Girls and Immigrants Exhibit (.PDF) from the National Parks Service contains information on the Lowell mill boardinghouses
- Industrial Archaeology: Living on the Boott: An interesting article about excavation at the site of Boott Cotton Mills boardinghouses in Lowell, excerpted from the book "Living on the Boott": Historical Archaeology at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses, Lowell, Massachusetts, by Stephen A. Mrozowski, Grace H. Ziesing, and Mary C. Beaudry.
- Boarding House Rules from the Handbook to Lowell, 1848 (.PDF)
- Documents of Mill Life (.PDF)
- Lowell and Its Factory System, 1842, by Charles Dickens (.PDF)
- A personal account of the 1836 strikes, an excerpt from Loom and Spindle, or, Life Among the Early Mill Girls by Harriet Hanson Robinson.
- The Lowell Offering a monthly literary magazine produced by the mill girls (more about the magazine can be found in Chapter 10 of A New England Girlhood)
- Excerpts of A New England Girlhood by poet Lucy Larcom.
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