Mill girl
Subtitle: a Victorian Girl's Diary, 1842-1843
By: Sue Reid
Series: My story; My story
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781407103730
Subjects: Cotton manufacture; Juvenile fiction; History
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.
Notes: Originally published: 2002.