Mill Girl (My Story)
Publisher: Scholastic; Gardners Books
Published: June 21, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780439981187
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...