![]() ![]() Maguire-overseer of her weaving room-is light and warmth in her desolation. So, for this achingly lonely girl, jokingly affectionate Mr. Devout, shy, and gentle, Emmeline has ceased to be ""important"" as she was at home-and reassuring friendships seem to evaporate or are whirled away by her peers. Once in the new mill city, uprooted and homesick, Emmeline is dazzled by the poised regiments of ""Lowell girls,"" white-cuffed and smoothly coiffed she's bewildered by the jabs of innuendo and challenge from the other boarding-house roomers, all older than she she's frightened to tears by the thundering roll of the mills where the girls work from dawn to 7:00 P.M. In 1839 13-year-old Emmeline Mosher, oldest of nine children, a partner to her adored and spirited mother on their rocky, destitute Maine farm, is sent (at the urging of Aunt Hannah) to help support the family by working in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. ![]() Goodbar-pierces the central passion and terror of the victim. Within the austere severity of her pre-Civil War New England setting, Rossner-as in Looking for Mr. ![]()
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