[KNIGHT, C.]

MIND AMONGST THE SPINDLES:; A Miscellany wholly composed by the factory girls selected from The Lowell Offering with an introduction by the English editor and a letter from Harriet Martineau.

Boston: Jordan, Swift & Wiley, 1845. First Edition. 12mo, pp. xx, 214. Bound in leather backed boards, end papers soiled, some light toning to the title page and intermittant toning, edges and boards rubbed, a very good copy. Sabin 49192. Item #59381

A scarce anthology from the important Lowell Offering periodical. The Offering was the first magazine to be written, edited and published entirely by women. It offered works written by women working in the textile mills of Lowell, MA.

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