Other editions of book So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, An Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847

In another installment of the series that brings history to a personal level for young readers, a young Irish immigrant girl shares her experiences as a worker at the Lowell Mill.

So Far From Home, the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl Binding: hardcover

An Irish girl's experiences as she travels to America in the 1800's.

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This is the story of a young Irish girl who spends her early childhood in Ireland. In 1847 there is famine in that country and people leaving for better hope of life in America. She is put on a ship to America and soon out to sea. The diary chapters take the reader through all this and her new life in America.