An edition of So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America) (1997)

So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America)

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An edition of So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America) (1997)

So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America)

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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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Scholastic Inc, Scholastic Inc.
Language
English

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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
Places
Lowell (Mass.)

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Cover of: So Far From Home
So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, An Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts 1847 (Dear America Series)
November 1, 2003, Scholastic Inc.
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: So far from home
So far from home: the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl
1997, Scholastic
in English - 1st ed.
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America)
So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America)
October 1, 1997, Scholastic Inc, Scholastic Inc.
Hardcover in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: So far from home
So far from home: the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl
1997, Scholastic
in English - 1st ed.
Libraries near you: WorldCat

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Table of Contents

Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, 1847
Atlantic Ocean
Lowell, Massachusetts
Epilogue
Life in America in 1847
About the author

Edition Notes

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New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ7.D4135 So 1997, PZ7.D4135So 1997

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
170 p.
Dimensions
20 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

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OL24332677M
Internet Archive
sofarfromhomedi00dene
ISBN 10
0590926675
ISBN 13
9780590926676
LCCN
97005846
Amazon ID (ASIN)

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"'Tis true. I will be going to America."

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