Lucy Larcom Research Paper

Have you ever wondered what it's like to work in a factory? Imagine dust, lint, smoke, and noise all in one crowded room. This is what Lyddie Worthen in the book, Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson has to face. Lyddie has faced many hardships when working in the factory. Lyddie is a young girl who is sent off to work to pay the debts for her family. Lyddie was fired from her first job and went to Lowell, Massachusetts to be a factory girl. When working, there are poor working conditions. Other workers have started a petition to improve the working conditions. Lyddie should not sign the petition because she is mentally strong and is getting paid well.

Beginning her speech, Kelley applies her credibility by placing statistics regarding the controversy of child labor laws, revealing that she is informed about this topic. Her credibility has a great connection to her purpose, she claims that the number of working girls doubled from census to census and girls from twelve to twenty years are working when they should not have to. Kelley then manifests her concern over these working girls by explaining that, “tonight,” while everybody else is snoozing away in bed, “these several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills,”(16-17). These words make her audience feel pity concerning those young girls and are a great reason to act against the unfair laws and regulations that violate both their human and women's rights, especially when they aren’t even getting paid fairly. By appealing to their emotion Florence Kelley wishes to push the women to act on her proposal of joining together and helping the poor young girls of their nation. Kelley continues to approach and influence the women’s sentiments and- hopefully- their actions by including her scandalized argument that in “Georgia there is no restriction whatever! A girl of six or seven years, just tall enough to reach the bobbins, may work eleven hours by day or by night,” (29-31). She decides to include the ‘bobbins’ of sewing machines in factories to illustrate how short and how young they are to be working in dangerous factories where their rights are ignored, girls at that age should worry more about going to school instead of sacrificing themselves to bring money for bread to their homes. One would understand that many families are living through poverty due to the economy being at a very depressing state and they need the most they can do to increase their financial position to survive in their society, then again, girls should be

She died in October 18, 1893, in Dorchester which is part of Boston. Lucy Stone had dedicated her life to trying to improve the rights for American Women. She had supported the Women’s National Loyal League, this association also were founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. These ladies were also fighting with her and for the same things. Lucy was actually one of the most important ones just because she has broken new borders. Her occupation was a Women’s Rights, Activist and Journalist. She had her very first lecture on women’s rights movement. Then the following year she lectured at Anti- slavery societies every once in awhile. She had great eloquence and she was known for being able to engage even the most unruly and antagonistic audience. Which would because of the time and the causes she supported. In 1870 she founded the “Woman’s Journal”. Because of this for nearly 50 years the

In the novel Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson a young is sent to work in a tavern getting paid $00.50 but later gets fired when her boss found her as she was leaving work to go visit her house and her brother. But Lyddie (the main character) has found a solution to all of her problems, she would go work as a factory girl in Lowell, Massachusetts getting paid $1.50 an hour for all of the work she had done and she would get to live in a boarding house with other factory workers. She heads off

Woman along with the children were affected while working during the industrial revolution. During 1834 and 1836 Harriet Martineau, a British feminist and abolitionist, visited America and enthusiastically embraced the social implications of the Industrial Revolution, (DTA, 223). Martineau compared the lifestyle of women to slaves and said the United States contradicted the principles of the Declaration of Independence. She did believe though with some progress that it could become New England’s new industrial order. One of the Mill factories Martineau visited, Waltham Mill, was a prime example of the scheduled lifestyle of women mill workers. Women Mill workers of all ages worked at Waltham Mill, which I compared to a boarding school because of their strict schedules. The ladies had a time to wake up, to be at work, to eat, and to go to school. A lot of women did not mind the harsh conditions they lived and worked in because they fought for their equality of rights for a long time now.

Most of the women who worked in factories were there because they lacked other opportunities. Many dropped out of school because they married young or had to help their family bring in money. Bowman talks about a young woman named Mary, who explained that she had to quit school to help her mother out after her father passed away (Bowman Reid, 112). Women in the lower class did not have a choice whether they worked or not. Their husbands did not make enough to support their families and some women were left widows with children to

In Document A, the majority of the 10,000 workers were young, unmarried women from farm families. The women took on a significant role in the mills; tending the spinning machine and producing cotton textiles. The owners of the mills offered housing and education to increase the interest for women to work. In document C, Sally Rice, a young woman from Vermont, went to look for her own job away from the farm her family owned. She found work as a domestic servant in New York, and then found another job weaving in a cotton mill in Blackstone Valley. She wished to earn her own money and become more independent. In her letters to her family, she describes how great her work is. She said, “I have one of the best homes and good society which is a good deal better than I can have there [at home].” In both of these examples the women became more independent, accepted more responsibility, and untimely became

Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848, to parents who had fled slavery. Latimer learned the art of mechanical drawing while working at a patent firm. Over the course of his career as a draftsman, Latimer worked closely with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, in addition to designing his own inventions. He died in Flushing, Queens, New York, on December 11, 1928. Inventor and engineer Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. Latimer was the youngest of four children born to George and Rebecca Latimer, who had escaped from slavery in Virginia six years before his birth. Latimer married Mary Wilson in 1873, and they had two daughters together. In 1864, at the age

“Born into wealth and privilege as the daughter of the Provincial Governor of Massachusetts, Lucy Flucker Knox would have had her choice of a number of acceptable suitors. She fell in love, however, with perhaps the single most inappropriate man in Colonial Boston.” –The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York

Would the advances of today be up to such standards without the writings of history? Diary’s and books show the way of life along with what did and did not work. Women such as Martha Ballard and Mary Jemison gave an insight into their life that would have not been accessible to the world we know.

“Dad lost his job,”(67) Lori informed Jeanette. Which was not a surprise, but it was the job that he had for the longest period of time. Because Rex lost his job and the family had no real source of income the Walls were left with crumbs to eat. But Mary Rose could not let her family live a life of constant worrying about food, so she gets herself a job. A job as a teacher at the school which Lori, Jeanette and Brian attend. This is the first time that Mary Rose has a job and it shows Jeanette as well as the other children that women are also allowed to have jobs and make money. That men are not the only ones who are allowed to

grandmother, Mary Lou Wiseman. Mary Lou is an 83 year old Caucasian, born in the fall of 1933, in Marble Hill Missouri. She lived in Marble Hill up until 2007. She then moved to Elgin, South Carolina to stay with her second to youngest child David Wiseman, his wife, Tia Wiseman and three younger children, Jamie, Vanessa and Ashley Wiseman. After remaining in South Carolina for three years, she decided to move back to her hometown in Missouri. Over her years, Mary Lou has held several jobs in multiple different fields. Her first job was collecting eggs from her neighbor’s chicken coop.

Lynette Woodward was born in Wichita, Kansas on August 12, 1959. She is famous for playing great basketball. Did you know that she was the first women to play on the Harlem Globetrotters. When she gone to college at KU in 1978. She would usually score 26 points per game and by the time she was out of college she had scored 3,649 baskets. She gone to high school at Wichita North high school and won 2 state basketball titles. Lynette retired in 1999 and became an assistant coach for KU. In 2004 Lynette was added to the basketball hall of fame.She was given WBCBL award in

A chart illustrating the Occupations of Women Wage Earners in Massachusetts in 1837 shows that nearly half of the women wage earners were in the hat business. While the hat business isn’t one of high skill, it was new for women to be wage earners at all. The emergence of factories (such as Lowell) created a new demand for workers that men alone couldn’t fulfill. A Letter written by a factory worker around the same time as the chart tells Ms. Edward’s story about her job. She is very happy with her life and tells the recipient of the letter that she enjoys boarding with a family, regardless of how “factory girls” are seen by the public.

Within the first stanza, it provides the setting and foreshadowing for the rest of the poem. It allows the reader to know that Lucy Gray has been heard of before and often, however, the speaker does not reveal why he has heard of Lucy Gray nor why seeing her is worth mentioning, it simply strikes up curiosity about Lucy and sets her up as an important figure. The second stanza continues this curiosity of Lucy, saying that Lucy had no “mate” nor “comrade”, corresponding with the description of her within the previous stanza as a “solitary child”. The speaker says that she is “the sweetest thing that ever grew beside a human door”. It now allows the readers to understand who Lucy is, a sweet and dear child as described. The two