Lucy Larcom Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: March 5, 1824 - April 17, 1893
Birthday: March 5
Death: April 17
The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.
topic: Girl, Work, Years, Hampshire
