So Far From Home

the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America)

3.3 · 170 pages · First published 1997

In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.

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Subjects

Fiction Textile workers Immigrants Diaries Irish Americans Juvenile fiction Children's fiction Emigration and immigration, fiction Diaries, fiction Irish, united states, fiction United states, history, fiction Ireland, fiction

Publishers: Scholastic, Scholastic Inc, Scholastic Inc.
Languages: eng