Mill Girl: A Victorian Girl's Diary, 1842-1843
25 My Story: Girls

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

By
Sue Reid
Sue Reid
2002 • 192 pages

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.

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My Story: Girls

My Story: Girls is a 25-book series with 25 released primary works first released in 1998 with contributions by Alison Prince, Frances Mary Hendry, and Carol Drinkwater.

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