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Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (1825 – 1911), who worked as a bobbin doffer in a Massachusetts cotton mill as a child, was involved in a worker's strike, became a poet and author and played an important role in the women's suffrage movement in the United States. Somebody has said that the story of any life, properly written, would make an entertaining book. In “Loom and Spindle” Mrs. Robinson has sketched her own biography, and it is more than ordinarily interesting, because her experience has been more than ordinary. Born in Boston, she went with her mother, when she was still a child, to Lowell, where, at the age of ten, she began work as a “ doffer” in a cotton mill. Her account of life among the mill-girls of Lowell sixty years ago is exceedingly interesting. In 1831 Lowell was little more than a factory village, and the operatives were mostly New England country girls, of good families, who took quick advantage of an opportunity offered them – an unusual thing for women in those days — to work for money. The high intellectual attainments of these girls were shown in their publication of the Lowell Offering, the historic mill-girls' magazine, for which Mrs. Robinson wrote, and to which she devotes a considerable portion of her book. Her biographical sketches of the most important of the mill-girl writers, including Lucy Larcom and her sister, have much historical and literary value. Mrs. Robinson was a mill girl at Lowell in the days when the " Lowell Offering " brought to the notice of the world the intellectual activities of a group of young women connected with those great manufacturing corporations. Mrs. Robinson pictures the almost idyllic state of the working girl at that time, and she contrasts their mental and social status with the same class of workers at the present time. The "Mill Girls" were female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States. The workers initially recruited by the corporations were daughters of propertied New England farmers, between the ages of 15 and 30. (There also could be "little girls" who worked there about the age of 13.) By 1840, at the height of the Industrial Revolution, the textile mills had recruited over 8,000 women, who came to make up nearly seventy-five percent of the mill workforce. CONTENTS. I. Lowell Sixty Tears Ago II. Child-life In The Lowell Cotton Mills HI. The Little Mill-girl's Alma Mater IV. The Characteristics Op The Early Factory Girls V. Characteristics (Continued) VI. The Lowell Offering And Its Writers VII. The Lowell Offering (Continued) VIII. Brief Biographies Of Some Of The Writers For The Lowell Offering IX. The Cotton Factory Of Today Originally published in 1898; reformatted for the Kindle; may contain occasional imperfection; original spellings have been kept in place.
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Feminist author suffrage leader
Harriet Jane Hanson (Robinson) was born in Boston, of old New England stock, the daughter of William and Harriet (Browne) Hanson. When about eight years old she moved with her widowed mother and three brothers to Lowell "where they lived for some years on one of the manufacturing 'corporations' ".
In Lowell Harriet Jane Hanson received her early education, and then became an operative in a Lowell mill.
As one of Lowell's literary mill girls she wrote for The Lowell Offering, and was on intimate terms with its editors. She also contributed to the "annuals" and newspapers of the time.
Throughout her husban's lifetime, she loyally and enthusiastically supported his activities in the antislavery crusade and other reform movements. Her own particular interest, however, was in the advancement of women, and, following Robinson's death in 1876, she wrote and spoke freely in their behalf.
She was the first woman to appear before the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage in Congress, and she advocated the cause of suffrage before the legislature of Massachusetts.
She was also one of the first members of the Wintergreen Club of Boston.
In 1888 she served as a member of the International Council of Women which met in Washington. She was keenly interested in the women's club movement, assisting in the formation of the General Federation of Women's Clubs in 1890, and serving as a member of its first advisory board. In association with Julia Ward Howe and others she helped to organize the New England Women's Club. She was also one of the first members of the Wintergreen Club of Boston.
Her earliest book was "Warrington" Pen-Portraits (1877), a memoir of her husband with selections from his writings.
This was followed by Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: A General, Political, Legal and Legislative History from 1774 to 1881 (1881, 1883); Captain Mary Miller (1887), a suffrage drama; The New Pandora (1889), a classical drama and "the heart-and-brain product of one who grew up as a working-girl"; Early Factory Labor in New England (1883, 1889); and Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls (1898).
The closing years of her life were spent in Malden, Massachussets, where she died in her eighty-seventh year.
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Through her working forthe Lowell Courier she met the journalist and reformer, William Stevens Robinson whom, on November 30, 1848, she married; they had two daughters and two sons.
