Nabby Comes to Lowell — Helen A. Monsell

Nabby dreamt of escape from her dreary life on the lonely Massachusetts farm where she had lived ever since her parents died. Then, on a fateful day in 1833, she met a young girl from one of the new textile mills in Lowell--and freedom suddenly seemed possible!

Nabby decided instantly--and from that moment on, her life began to change ...a hair-raising escape by stagecoach--to the dizzying noise and tumult of the city and the mills . . . new faces and friends--from the handsome young mill superintendent to a Presidential encounter!

And as if this weren't enough, Nabby suddenly stumbled into a strange tangle of scandal and mystery that drew her, irresistibly, into the stormiest adventure of her life!