Larcom, Lucy, 1824-1893
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Lucy Larcom wrote poetry about women's factory life in Lowell, Mass. She was a friend and collaborator of John Greenleaf Whittier.
Poet and writer, from Lowell, Mass. who attended Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Ill. from 1849-1852, and was friends with Henry Spaulding who worked at the Surveyor General's Office in St. Louis.
American author and educator.
Larcom went to work in the cotton mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1835 at age 11 and worked there until she was 21. She is best remembered as an American poet.
A worker in a Lowell textile mill, seminary teacher, and magazine editor, Lucy Larcom was also a poet and author of A New England Girlhood (1889). For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971).
American author.
Born 1824. Teacher at Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts (1854-1863; 1865-1866 and 1866-1867). Also supported herself through proceeds of lecturing, writing, poetry, and editing of children's magazines, and religious and ladies journals. Died 1893.
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Wheaton Female Seminary (Norton, Mass.)
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Salem (Mass.)
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Beverly (Mass.)
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India
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Moosilauke, Mount (N.H.)
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Lowell (Mass.)
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