Mill Girl
Mill Girl
About this book
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.
Details
- OL Work ID
- OL5708013W
Subjects
Cotton manufactureJuvenile fictionHistoryDiariesFictionChildren's fictionGreat britain, history, fictionEngland, fictionFathers and daughters, fiction