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designing and constructing <strong>the</strong> first mills to be entirely dedicated to <strong>the</strong><br />

manufacture of fabrics.<br />

Lowell soon became a tourist destination. In an essay on <strong>the</strong> industrial town,<br />

MacDonald cites <strong>the</strong> description written by Charles Dickens:<br />

Lowell became a curiosity and a challenge. Travellers made pilgrimages<br />

to this shrine of industrialism […] One went through its wonders under<br />

<strong>the</strong> direction of "a gentleman intimately connected with <strong>the</strong><br />

management of <strong>the</strong> factories” and saw only <strong>the</strong> bright promise of <strong>the</strong><br />

good. It was new, and youth was its mark. To Dickens, with his<br />

inordinate love of <strong>the</strong> queer, shabby, and grotesque, it was a shiny and<br />

flimsy kind of play village.

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