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Updated: July 5, 2025
We might perhaps find that silly school-girls at first decline to admit on terms of perfect equality one who had "worked for her living," and was, in their not very elegant parlance, "nothing but a mill-girl." Perhaps we might have to chronicle some lonely and sad hours in consequence, and some rebellious feelings hard to be kept down.
"Now, you look more like yourself," he smiled admiringly, as he looked down on her white dress and auburn hair, drooping low over her neck and shoulders. "Tell me about yourself and how you like it at the mill," he went on as he sat down. "Oh, you will not be willing to speak to me now now that I am a mill-girl," she added. "Do you know? Clay "
I have even heard a chambermaid at a hotel introduce herself to guests as "the chamber-lady." I do not believe that any Lowell mill-girl was ever absurd enough to wish to be known as a "factory-lady," although most of them knew that "factory-girl" did not represent a high type of womanhood in the Old World.
I was alone then: mother was dead, and father was gone, 'n' th' Lord thought 't was time to see to me, special as th' overseer was gettin' me an enter to th' poor-house. So He sent Mr. Holmes along. Then it come right!" Margret did not speak. Even this mill-girl could talk of him, pray for him; but she never must take his name on her lips!
"I knew it wud come right, allus. I was alone then: mother was dead, and father was gone, 'n' th' Lord thought 't was time to see to me, special as th' overseer was gettin' me an enter to th' poorhouse. So He sent Mr. Holmes along. Then it come right!" Margaret did not speak. Even this mill-girl could talk of him, pray for him; but she never must take his name on her lips!
From the beginning, Lowell had a high reputation for good order, morality, piety, and all that was dear to the old-fashioned New Englander's heart. After his death, my mother's thoughts naturally followed the direction his had taken; and seeing no other opening for herself, she sold her small estate, and moved to Lowell, with the intention of taking a corporation-house for mill-girl boarders.
All about, in the darkness, were other groups: mothers and fathers and alert, chattering children. Alice Carter, the big mill-girl, radiant now, and with a hoarse, inarticulate, adoring young plumber in tow, went by them, and stooped to whisper something to Mrs. Burgoyne. "I wish you WOULD come, Alice!" the lady answered eagerly, as they went on.
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