After two years, Thomas left The Lowell Offering and it landed in the hands of Harriet Farley and Harriot F. Curtis.
[1] Unfortunately, the editor still did not believe women were fit due to the hard labor work they face twelve hours a day.
[3] This further exemplifies the belief that women are unfit and under qualified, due to the fact they are forcefully placed in these mills or have to work in them as a last chance to keep their families afloat.
Much like the common thought of how women are unfit to be paid and therefore they just are because it is up to the men who run these companies and hire the workers.
For a woman with little money and status who was a part of the Lowell mills in the 1830s, becoming an editor, journalist, and author was an incredible success.
She used her writing to express the inequality between men and women in 19th-century society, especially as the industrial revolution swept across the globe.
Harriott Curtis showed others that social and economic class doesn't have an influence on the skill set a writer possesses.