Denenberg, Barry

So far from home : The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl / Barry Denenberg. - New York : Scholastic Inc, 1997. - 170p. - Dear America .

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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Irish Americans--Fiction
Immigrants--Fiction
Textile workers--Fiction
Lowell (Mass)--Fiction
Diaries--Fiction