So Far From Home
the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America)
United states, history, fiction
Textile workers
Emigration and immigration, fiction
Irish Americans
Diaries, fiction
Ireland, fiction
Immigrants
Diaries
Children's fiction
Juvenile fiction
Fiction
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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