So Far From Home
the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America)
First published 1997
About this book
In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.
Subjects
FictionTextile workersImmigrantsDiariesIrish AmericansJuvenile fictionChildren's fictionEmigration and immigration, fictionDiaries, fictionIrish, united states, fictionUnited states, history, fictionIreland, fiction