![]() The first I heard of that story was in the novel “Emmeline” by Judith Rossner, published in 1980. A year later, his family visited the couple and discovered that he had married his own mother. When she was 62, she married again, this time to a younger man from Massachusetts who had come north to Fayette to work on the roads. Years later, she married a man and had another son, both of whom disappeared, probably heading west. She did and said nothing about the child. ![]() She hid this by telling her family she was sick and would return to Fayette when recovered. However, she was seduced by her boss and bore a son, whom she gave up for immediate adoption. She saved money and sent some home to her family, who needed it badly. ![]() She was only 14 and one of hundreds of others like her from rural northern New England. With the permission of her family, Emmeline Bachelder, born in Fayette, Maine, around 1817, went to Lowell, Mass., as a “mill girl” to work in the newly constructed textile mills there along the Merrimac River. It’s a most unlikely story, but it may have happened. Were events in Emmeline’s life a matter of fact or fiction? ![]()
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