Title: So Far From Home
Subtitle: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America)
First published: 1997
Description: 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: Fiction, Textile workers, Immigrants, Diaries, Irish Americans, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Diaries, fiction, Irish, united states, fiction, United states, history, fiction, Ireland, fiction
Places: Lowell (Mass.)
LC classification: PZ7.D4135 So 1997