The Lowell Offering

Despite their unjustly long workdays, the Lowell Mill girls still found time to organize their thoughts and voices in a monthly magazine called The Lowell Offering. Any mill girl or working woman was free to contribute works of poetry, short fiction, humor, or religious writing to the paper. Topics ranged anywhere from love, dreams, to the labor unrest that broke out during the later reform movement in which the mill girls fought for better working conditions and shorter, ten hour workdays. The Lowell Offering was written entirely by the working women themselves, but organized under Reverend Thomas. Later, in 1842, Harriot F. Curtis and Harriet Farley took over and became the editors of the magazine until it's end in 1845.


Grace Kang