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Mind Amongst the Spindles

Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimack River, 25 miles northwest of Boston. By the 1850s Lowell had the largest industrial complex in the United States. The textile industry wove cotton produced in the South. In 1860, there were more cotton spindles in Lowell than in all eleven states combined that would form the Confederacy. Mind Amongst the Spindles is a selection of works from the Lowell Offering, a monthly periodical collecting contributed works of poetry and fiction by the female workers of the textile mills. The Lowell Mill Girls, as the workers were known, were young women aged 15-35. The Offering began in 1840 and lasted until 1845. As its popularity grew, workers contributed poems, ballads, essays and fiction. The authors often used their characters to report on conditions and situations in their lives and their works alternated between serious and farcical. (Introduction adapted from Wikipedia by MaryAnn)

Year of Publication: 1845Genres: Short Stories,General Fiction,Poetry

Running Time: 8 hours 15 minutes 06 seconds(23 chapters)

Language: EnglishRead by: MaryAnn

#	Chapter Name
	Preface MaryAnn	25:30
	Abbey's Year in Lowell MaryAnn	17:56
	The First Wedding in Salmagundi; "Bless, and curse not"; Ancient Poetry MaryAnn	17:04
	The Spirit of Discontent; The Whortleberry Excursion; The Western Antiquities MaryAnn	21:05
	The Fig Tree MaryAnn	11:01
	The Village Pastors MaryAnn	29:59
	The Sugar-Making Excursion MaryAnn	9:57
	Prejudice Against Labor MaryAnn	20:29
	Joan of Arc MaryAnn	19:54
	Susan Miller MaryAnn	25:46
	Scenes on the Merrimac MaryAnn	18:06
	The First Bells MaryAnn	19:32
	Evening Before Payday MaryAnn	23:42
	The Indian Pledge; The First Dish of Tea MaryAnn	9:34
	Liesure Hours of the Mill Girls MaryAnn	35:09
	The Tomb of Washington; Life among Farmers MaryAnn	25:22
	A Weaver's Reverie; Our Duty to Strangers; Elder Isaac Townsend MaryAnn	14:55
	Harriet Greenough MaryAnn	18:00
	Fancy; The Widow's Son; Witchcraft MaryAnn	20:28
	Cleaning Up; Visits to the Shakers MaryAnn	20:11
	The Lock of Grey Hair; Lament of the little Hunchback; This World is not our Home; Dignity of Labor MaryAnn	23:07
	The Village Chronicle; Ambition and Contentment MaryAnn	28:13
	A Conversation on Physiology MaryAnn	40:06