"A New England Girlhood Outlined from Memory" by Lucy Larcom

This book is not a diary nor a journal but seemingly a new genre, a collection of memories of Lucy Larcom. It follows the author from a toddler to early adulthood. The values and morals woven into her live should be a lesson to all of us. Born in 1821, she moved with her family to Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s after the death of her shipmaster father. Originally published in 1889, her autobiography offers glimpses of the early years of the American industrial and social development.…