co-written with Genevra Gallo-Bayiates

In 1840, a group of factory workers began publishing the world’s first magazine written solely by women; it was called The Lowell Offering. These dirt-poor farmer’s daughters with very little education wrote beautiful and heartbreaking stories, mostly about their own lives, all while working in the mills of Lowell Massachusetts for 75 hours a week. To everyone’s surprise, they achieved instant success, and the magazine captivated the western world. This is the story of the magazine’s editor, Harriet Farley, and Sarah Bagley, a labor activist–and the rise and fall of their friendship, the magazine and Lowell’s mill girl culture.