Lizzy Glenn

Lizzy Glenn, by T.S. Arthur

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Title: Lizzy Glenn
Author: T.S. Arthur
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Language: English
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LIZZY GLENN:

OR, THE TRIALS OF A SEAMSTRESS.
BY T.S. ARTHUR
AUTHOR OF "LOVE IN A COTTAGE," "LOVE IN HIGH LIFE,"
ETC.
"Work--work--work Till the brain begins to swim; Work--work--work
Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and
gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on
in a dream!"
Hood's Song of the Shirt.
Philadelphia:
1859

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Lizzy Glenn--Mrs. Gaston and her sick Child,
CHAPTER II.
How a Needlewoman Lives,
CHAPTER III.
Death of Mrs. Gaston's Child--A Mother's anguish,
CHAPTER IV.
Lizzy Glenn arouses the interest of a Stranger,

CHAPTER V.
Some of the Troubles of a Needlewoman--A Friend in Need,
CHAPTER VI.
Perkins' Narrative,
CHAPTER VII.
Henry Gaston leaves Home with Sharp,
CHAPTER VIII.
Henry Gaston's Treatment by Sharp,
CHAPTER IX.
Lizzy Glenn finds in Mrs. Gaston an old Friend,
CHAPTER X.
Lizzy Glenn's Narrative to Mrs. Gaston,
CHAPTER XI.
Perkins anxiously seeks Lizzy Glenn,
CHAPTER XII.
Perkins finds in Lizzy Glenn his long lost Eugenia, THE FATHER'S
DREAM, I'LL SEE ABOUT IT, HUMAN LIFE, THE SUM OF
TRIFLES; OR, "A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY GAINED,"

LIZZY GLENN;

OR, THE TRIALS OF A SEAMSTRESS.
CHAPTER I.
LIZZY GLENN--MRS. GASTON AND HER SICK CHILD.

NEEDLE-WORK, at best, yields but a small return. Yet how many
thousands have no other resource in life, no other barrier thrown up
between them and starvation! The manly stay upon which a woman has
leaned suddenly fails, and she finds self-support an imperative
necessity; yet she has no skill, no strength, no developed resources. In
all probability she is a mother. In this case she must not only stand
alone, but sustain her helpless children. Since her earliest recollection,
others have ministered to her wants and pleasures. From a father's hand,
childhood and youth received their countless natural blessings; and
brother or husband, in later years, has stood between her and the rough
winds of a stormy world. All at once, like a bird reared, from a
fledgling, in its cage, and then turned (sic) lose in dreary winter time,
she finds herself in the world, unskilled in its ways, yet required to earn
her bread or perish.
What can she do? In what art or profession has she been educated? The
world demands service, and proffers its money for labor. But what has
she learned? What work can she perform? She can