Mill Girl
About this book
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
- children's fiction
- cotton manufacture
- diaries
- england, fiction
- fathers and daughters, fiction
- fiction
- great britain, history, fiction
- history
- juvenile fiction