Mill Girl: A Victorian Girl's Diary, 1842-1843

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sue Reid
• Publisher: Scholastic UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.04.2008
• EAN: 9781407103730
• ISBN: 978-1-4071-0373-0
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 13 mm
• Series: My Story; My Story
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age