Merch y felin

Description:

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.

subjects: Cotton manufacture,  Juvenile fiction,  History,  Diaries,  Fiction,  Children's fiction,  Great britain, history, fiction,  England, fiction,  Fathers and daughters, fiction

Places: England,  Manchester,  Manchester (England)

Times: 19th century