num_pages: 224
description: 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.
language: English
title: Mill Girl: The Diary of Eliza Helsted, Manchester, 1842-1843
publisher: Scholastic