Her family has nothing left. She tried to make do on her own, but they couldn't make it last forever and now she's sent off to work:
"She was no more than a slave. She worked from before dawn until well after dark, and what did she have to show for it? She was no closer to paying off the debt and coming home than she'd been a year ago. She needed cash money for that. She needed work that would pay well. And there was only one place in New England where a girl could get a good cash wage for her work - and that was in Lowell, in the mills" - p. 43-44The year is 1844 and Lyddie Worthen is finding her own way, out of her family's poverty and into her own independence. What will it take for her to succeed?
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