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The Worlds of Lucy Larcom, 1824-1893 [Hardcover]

Shirley Marchalonis (Author)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Lucy Larcom, Jan 8 2004
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This review is from: The Worlds of Lucy Larcom, 1824-1893 (Hardcover)
Lucy Larcom was a Mill Girl in Lowell, MA. She went west and taught school on the frontier (Illinois). Always interested in poetry, Lucy became a writer later in the 19th Century and good friends with John Greenleaf Whittier. Shirley Marchalonis is a wonderful writer. This book is easy and enjoyable to read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Pious Inspirational Poet of 19th century America, Dec 16 2005
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This review is from: The Worlds of Lucy Larcom, 1824-1893 (Hardcover)
Lucy Larcom (1824-1893), born into a large church going New England family and herself a lifelong maid, reached the status of being one of the better known minor poets of her time, but is now nearly forgotten.
I became acquainted with Lucy Larcom through reading biographies about and the published letters of John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), a more major 19th century Quaker New England poet and anti-slavery reformer who, alas, has been largely forgotten in our time.
After the early death of her father, Lucy and other members of her family were pressed financially. In her youth this bright girl worked in the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. Later she went to the greater St. Louis area as a teacher before returning
to New England where she taught and wrote.
Her own persistence and poetic gifts along with the help of the poet Whittier gradually elevated her to being a recognized poet. Perhaps her most enduring book (which I have not yet read) was A New England Girlhood, a prose autobiographical volume.
Lucy was intelligent, pious and genial and I am glad to have gotten to know her better through this biography. An older sister, Emeline, was of special inspiration and assistance to Lucy. Emeline, a lifelong orthodox Congregationalist and a person of steadfast character, experienced many trials during her life. In some respects I thought that I might have learned more about noble character if a thorough biography of Emeline could be written. This is not to belittle Lucy; only to say that the hidden life of one family member may have more things to teach us about the depths of life than that of the limelight of another family member.

4.0 out of 5 stars Lucy Larcom, Jan 8 2004
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This review is from: The Worlds of Lucy Larcom, 1824-1893 (Hardcover)
Lucy Larcom was a Mill Girl in Lowell, MA. She went west and taught school on the frontier (Illinois). Always interested in poetry, Lucy became a writer later in the 19th Century and good friends with John Greenleaf Whittier. Shirley Marchalonis is a wonderful writer. This book is easy and enjoyable to read.
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