The Factory Witches of Lowell
Written by C.S. Malerich
Narrated by Rachel Botchan
4/5
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About this audiobook
Faced with abominable working conditions, unsympathetic owners, and hard-hearted managers, the mill girls of Lowell have had enough. They're going on strike, and they have a secret weapon on their side: a little witchcraft to ensure that no one leaves the picket line.
For the young women of Lowell, Massachusetts, freedom means fair wages for fair work, decent room and board, and a chance to escape the cotton mills before lint stops up their lungs. When the Boston owners decide to raise the workers’ rent, the girls go on strike. Their ringleader is Judith Whittier, a newcomer to Lowell but not to class warfare. Judith has already seen one strike fold and she doesn’t intend to see it again. Fortunately Hannah, her best friend in the boardinghouse?and maybe first love??has a gift for the dying art of witchcraft.
C.S. Malerich
C. S. MALERICH grew up in northern New Jersey. Storytelling was an early love, her first and favorite subjects being rabbits, felines, and horses. As an adolescent, she became interested in fantasy and mythology, which led her to major in Classics at Montclair State University. In 2005, she followed her best friend to Washington, DC, where she continued avoiding fluency in Greek and Latin and taught mythology to undergrads at the University of Maryland. She’s since pursued interests in folklore, cultural studies, and public health, sometimes all at once. Her fiction often explores intersections of liberation and justice, with an infectious dance beat. Some of her work has appeared in Apparition Lit, Ares Magazine, and the Among Animals anthologies from eco-fiction publisher Ashland Creek Press. Her novel Fire & Locket was published in 2019. C.S. continues to live and work in the DC area.
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Reviews for The Factory Witches of Lowell
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book severely needed editing for complex discussions around race and gender.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Under the leadership of pro-union firebrand Judith and her best friend, secret witch Hannah, the female factory weavers of Lowell, MA demand better working conditions and are willing to strike to get them. As the nitty-gritty of worker’s rights mixes with paranormal elements, the two young women fall in love.This novella probably could have been extended into novel length, but perhaps it is just as well that it was not.