Title: Mill Girl
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.
Subjects: Cotton manufacture, Juvenile fiction, History, Diaries, Fiction, Children's fiction, Great britain, history, fiction, England, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction
Places: England, Manchester, Manchester (England)
Time periods: 19th century