The Importance Of Sarah Hale And The Ladies Magazine

1. What was the importance of Sarah Hale and The Ladies Magazine to the 19th century woman? (H.P.)
 The importance of Sarah Hale and the Ladies Magazine played a big role in how women in the 19th century gathered the idealistic views of how a woman should be. In the 1830’s and 1840’s when “home” and “mother” became central themes in pop culture, the steady stream of publications from the magazine articles modeled how the ideal role of the middle-classed woman, how her conduct should be, her character, and new significance. Through the magazine publishing, Sarah had articles of subjects aimed towards women, suggesting that women should be educated fairly and should receive the equivalent education that men would have received at the time. Sarah strongly believed that in order to for women to

What was the life of the mill girl like? Compare this with the white women in the Antebellum South. (H.P.) 
The life of a mill girl during the 19th century was quite unique from anything we would see today. In the 1800’s after the power loom was introduced, work boomed in the mills and half of the textile work force worked under the “family system” later to be changed to the “boardinghouse” system. Under the boardinghouse system the girls would live in the boardinghouses that surrounded the mills. There would be boardinghouse keepers that were hired by the Lowell Mills in order to supervise and maintain the morality of the girls experience while at the factory. The girls were instructed to follow and abide by a set of moral rules established by the mills. Misconduct was to be reported to the mills and girls would potentially be fired for offenses such as insubordination and would generally be blacklisted and be cast out from working at other mills. The typical mill worker ranged from sixteen to twenty five but could be a girl as young as ten years old. They would work extremely long hours, being that a typical work day would have been around twelve to thirteen hours