Book 2015

Mill Girl

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Publisher: Scholastic
Language: English
Published: 2015

Children's fiction
England, fiction

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.