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LOWELL AND ITS OPERATIVES. 395
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can attest to their truthfulness of character , and to their ability to have It written continued what to they claimed in public to have favour done and . appeared regularly
grow , every failure month but entirel for five y for years reasons , not of having a private been character stopped . then as a
merit The , but u Lowell contained Offering" made h to be no regarde pretensions d as a to wonder great , literary and to enoug
to elicit present , the praise specimens of schol of ars the on different both continents tastesop . inions "Whil and e intending feelings
, , of mind factory that girls has , it done proved much there to was remove " mind prejudices among , the and sp to indles elevate
/'—factory to The her writer g by irls those in could public who fill estimation have a volume been . with factory interesting operat letters ives . She addressed offers
to a few the iC specimens Offering , , " from which those are extracts who were from among friendly the correspondence contributors
never better intended proof b than y the mere writers assertion for publicat of the ion qualities . They of are mind presented and
as character writes sometimes as follows found : — in " I factory have never girls . read the lines of Byron One
to the which misanthrop you referred ic bard , . indeed I was I broug have ht but up little in a very acquaintance small country with for where denoted aristocracyand a knocker was
the the village nobility place , . itself The a carpet . p I hysician do not owned think there a set was , to of borrow a Shakespeare copy of it B the yron , but old in
when my mother sent , at my request , , curmudgeon to read sent back I had word heard that of * Midsummer Shakespeare Ni was ght not ' s Dream fit for ,
King women ictures Lear of , trag Cymb . ic eline and _, & fanciful c , and ideal my , head and was you full may of perhaps vague
p imag the mag ine ical my creation disappointment . Such books at not as being Baxter allowed ' s Saints' a Ilest peep , ' into and
the ' Call to the Unconverted , ' ' Mason on Self-Knowledge , ' and the great standard writings but of Milton told , Bunyan to look and Cowper B , were as
read a of sour Lucifer and -tempered appr had eciated caused heathen , his whose I own was wonderful destruction powers . upon Since , like then yron those my
collections opinions have , and books been much of extracts modified with ; but the thoug choice h morceaux I have met of the in
unhappy tionsthat poet I have , I have never retained procured such a comp a dread lete edition of his of dark his works fascina . " -
It , was this lady who published tlie following little sketch of her own life in the " Offering . " told that she must henceforth
earn "When her own fifteen living years , and of age not , she depend was upon her father for a subsisand but childshe was
tence obliged . to Thoug teach h school in manner , and there appearance was some dissatisfaction a _p i , 2 caused
Lowell And Its Operatives. 395
LOWELL AND ITS OPERATIVES . 395
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/35/
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