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Larcom’s most enduring work, however, is generally considered to be her autobiography, A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (1889). Recollecting her years in Beverly and Lowell, …

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In 1862, forced by ill health to give up teaching, she turned her attention more closely to literary work. For the weekly papers, she composed homely fireside verses, and sometimes, stirred by her patriotic …

form to replace a foreshortened childhood. Lucy Larcom’s narratives of child labour during the mid-1840s, published several decades later, represented an inherent advocacy of human developmental …

Chapters the role of poetry in her life makes it clear that one through seven show "the dissected and she associates poetry and the poetic with far exposed body of Larcom's childhood," while the more than …

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It was at one of the meetings of the literary circle, established among the "mill girls", that Larcom first met the poet, John Greenleaf Whittier, who was then in Lowell editing a Free Soil journal.