So Far From Home
the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America)
About this book
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
- children's fiction
- diaries
- diaries, fiction
- emigration and immigration, fiction
- fiction
- immigrants
- ireland, fiction
- irish americans
- irish, united states, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- textile workers
- united states, history, fiction