Loom and Spindle

by Harriet Hanson Robinson

Book Overview

Author Harriet Robinson (1825-1911), born Harriet Jane Hanson in Boston, offers a first person account of her life as a factory girl in Lowell, Massachusetts in this 1898 work. Robinson moved with her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916630021
• ISBN13: 9780916630027
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Islander Group Inc
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

very limited roles for women

The book is a rarity. It was a commentary written by a mill girl in Massachusetts during the 1850s. When few women had education, and even fewer who used it to save a contemporaneous account of their experiences. Through Robinson's eyes we see the very limited roles allowed to women in that era. Not too dissimilar from current accounts of women in some Muslim countries, actually. Women were mostly considered wards of their husbands or fathers. Robinson's occupation was one of the few openly permitted to women. From her written record, Robinson seemed like quite an accomplished woman. Constrained by her times, we can only wonder at what she would have achieved perhaps a century later. She might have ranked as a major author, instead of being barely remembered today.