A New England Girlhood (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Lang, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440053871 ISBN 13: 9781440053870

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2024

Synopsis

Th following sketch was writteti tot thd young, at the suggestion of friends. My audieuoe kunderstood to be composed of girig of all ages, and of women who have not forgotten their girlhood. Such as have a friendly appreciation of girls and of those who write for them are also welcome to listen to as much of my narrative as they choose. All others are eavesdroppers, and, of course, have no right to criticise. To many, the word autobiography implies nothing but conceit and egotism. But these are not necessarily its characteristics. If an apple Uosbom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the sunshine that smiled upon it, of the winds that whispered to it, of the birds that sang around it, of the storms that visited it, and of the motherly tree that held it and fed it until its petals were unfolded and its form developed. A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little lifes
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About the Author:

Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) was an American poet. Larcom was the ninth of ten children. She left Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1835 to work in the cotton mills in Lowell from the ages of 11 to 21. As a mill girl she hoped to earn some extra money for her family. While working at the mills in Lowell, Lucy made a huge impact. She wrote and published many of her songs, poems, and letters describing her life at the mills. Her idealistic poems caught the attention of John Greenleaf Whittier. Larcom served as a model for the change in women's roles in society. In the 1840s, she taught at a school in Illinois before returning to Massachusetts. From 1865 to 1873, she was the editor of Our Young Folks, later renamed St. Nicholas Magazine. Larcom penned one of the best accounts of New England childhood of her time, A New England Girlhood, commonly used as a reference in studying early American childhood. Her relatives live in the Greater Boston area, Tampa area, and Orange County, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1440053871
• ISBN 13: 9781440053870
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284