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From: Mary Ann Gilpatrick <magilpat>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:32:28 -0700
I am gratified that my readers, and others, like Lyddie.
Sarah Bagley has long been a personal heroine of mine, and a book like Lyddie which brings to life the realities of the New England factory girls.
It could be so dry; reading about farm girls who went into the factories to save the family farm;who earned what at first seemed like good wages but at what a cost; how the factories were speeded up when the economy got tight and the
"model towns" turned into hellholes; how immigrant prejudice was used to keep people divided, and how the Yankee girls eventually were displaced by desperate immigrants after the organizing efforts bore fruit.
I am rhapsodizing because Lyddie does bring this all to life, AND because kids are reading it.
Mary Ann Gilpatrick
Received on Thu 19 Aug 1999 03:32:28 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:32:28 -0700
I am gratified that my readers, and others, like Lyddie.
Sarah Bagley has long been a personal heroine of mine, and a book like Lyddie which brings to life the realities of the New England factory girls.
It could be so dry; reading about farm girls who went into the factories to save the family farm;who earned what at first seemed like good wages but at what a cost; how the factories were speeded up when the economy got tight and the
"model towns" turned into hellholes; how immigrant prejudice was used to keep people divided, and how the Yankee girls eventually were displaced by desperate immigrants after the organizing efforts bore fruit.
I am rhapsodizing because Lyddie does bring this all to life, AND because kids are reading it.
Mary Ann Gilpatrick
Received on Thu 19 Aug 1999 03:32:28 PM CDT
