The Shopgirl of Ironbridge

1892. Seventeen-year-old Maria Keay leaves Ironbridge when she is offered an exciting job in a department store in Shrewsbury, but with the exhausting work and the exploitation of shopgirls, Maria must decide if moving away from home was the right decision.

About the author

Mollie Walton is the saga pen-name for historical novelist Rebecca Mascull. She has always been fascinated by history and has worked in education, has a Masters in Writing and lives by the sea in the east of England. Under Mollie Walton, Rebecca is the author of The Ironbridge Saga and the Raven Hall trilogy.

Summary

1892. Seventeen-year-old Maria Keay leaves Ironbridge when she is offered an exciting job in a department store in Shrewsbury, but with the exhausting work and the exploitation of shopgirls, Maria must decide if moving away from home was the right decision.

Foreword

1893. Eighteen-year-old Maria Keay leaves Ironbridge when she is offered an exciting job in a department store in Shrewsbury, but with the exhausting work and the exploitation of shopgirls, Maria must decide if moving away from home was the right decision.

Product details

• Authors: Mollie Walton
• Publisher: Headline Book
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.07.2025
• EAN: 9781802798241
• ISBN: 978-1-80279-824-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 560 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Romance / General, Sagas, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Romance / Historical / Victorian, Family life fiction, Generational sagas, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary