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Hear My Sorrow

The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 (Dear America)

by Deborah Hopkinson

2004 188 pages eng

ngela and her family have arrived in New York City from their village in Italy to find themselves settled in a small tenement apartment on the Lower East Side. When her father is no longer able to work, Angela must leave school and work in a shirtwaist factory. Against the backdrop of the birth of t…

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