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The daring ladies of Lowell

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Moving to the mill city of Lowell in 1832 to escape farm life, young Alice is disillusioned by the local factory's harsh working conditions and struggles to advocate on their behalf while recklessly falling in love with the mill owner's son, a situation that is complicated by a murder and sensationa...

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Main Author: Alcott, Kate (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Young women > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Textile workers > Massachusetts > Lowell > Fiction.
Trials (Murder) > Fiction.
Lowell (Mass.) > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Historical fiction > Massachusetts.
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Summary:Moving to the mill city of Lowell in 1832 to escape farm life, young Alice is disillusioned by the local factory's harsh working conditions and struggles to advocate on their behalf while recklessly falling in love with the mill owner's son, a situation that is complicated by a murder and sensational trial.
Physical Description:287 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:9780385536493 (alk. paper)
0385536496 (alk. paper)
Author Notes:Kate Alcott is the pseudonym for journalist Patricia O'Brien, who has written several books, both fiction and nonfiction. As Kate Alcott, she is the author of  The Dressmaker , a  New York Times bestseller. She lives with her husband in Washington, D.C.

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