Mill Girl
- 192 p. 8 x 0.35 x 7.8 inches
- 2008
- My Story .
In spring 1842, Eliza is shocked when she is sent to work in the Manchester cotton mills - the noisy, suffocating mills. The work is backbreaking and dangerous - and when she sees her friends' lives wrecked by poverty, sickness and unrest, Eliza realizes she must fight to escape the fate of a mill girl.
9781407103730
Diaries and Journals Strong Girls Young Adult Literature 19th Century Historical Fiction