Mill Girl: The Diary of Eliza Helsted, Manchester, 1842-1843 by Sue Reid

Mill Girl: The Diary of Eliza Helsted, Manchester, 1842-1843

My Story: Girls

Sue Reid

224 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

fiction childrens historical challenging fast-paced
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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 r...

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