A spirit to ride the whirlwind
By: by Athena V. Lord.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Women -- Employment -- Fiction.; Lodging houses -- Fiction.; Child labor -- Fiction.; Strikes and lockouts -- Fiction.; Industries -- History -- Fiction.
Description: Twelve-year-old Binnie, whose mother runs a company boarding house in Lowell, Massachusetts, begins working in a textile mill and is caught up in the 1836 strike of women workers.