Surname: Hall Forename(s): Lydia S. Nationality: American.
Working-class poet and textile worker. Pseudonym: “Adelaide” (see Robinson 125). One
of the “Lowell Mill Girls” who published poetry in The Lowell Offering monthly magazine. Co-editor of The Operatives’ Magazine (1841-1842) with Abby A. Goddard, which merged with The Lowell Offering (1840-1845). According to Robinson, Hall left Lowell by 1848 and worked as a missionary
to the Choctaw Indians (155). Biographical information: Harriet H. Robinson, Loom and Spindle or Life Among the Early Mill Girls, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1898. (AC)