Cotton Mill Girl

By Flora Ann Scearce

Facing the harsh realities of America's Industrial Revolution, Sippy learns to find her joy through the love of her friends and family, and eventually though the art of poetry. Join author Flora Ann... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598867180
• ISBN13: 9781598867183
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

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I sent this book to my teen-age granddaughters to enjoy and also understand more about their grandparents who worked in the textile mills in Gaston County. I would recommend this book to anyone but especially females.

Cotton Mill Girl

My parents worked in a cotton mill in North Alabama beginning in the 1940s, so it was an interesting look to see how cotton mills were in the early 1900s. I enjoyed the down-to-earth writing.

Fascinating book

Flora Ann Scearce could have been writing about my own Grandmother. My Grandmother lived in Rockingham, NC; went to work in the mills in 1900 at age 8; married at 16 and moved around North and South Carolina with her husband who worked in the carding room of the mills. They settled in Gastonia in the 1930's and bought a mill village house. Their house was behind the Armstrong mill. This is a wonderfully researched book. I couldn't put this book down.

Escape with this enticing summer read

Cotton Mill Girl, set in Gastonia,N.C., begins in 1912 as twelve-year-old Selena Wright is forced to leave School and work in Loray Cotton Mill. Long hours in the noisy and sometimes dangerous mill dominate the lives of all who work there -- especially the children like Selena. But Selena lives at Calloway Boardinghouse and the bustle of activity there - singing at the piano, sharing everything from savory home-cooked meals to the latest gossip with fellow boarders -- enriches her life. Selena learns how to escape the monotony of the mill through trips to the movie house to see Mary Pickford and outings for Cherry-Berry ice cream sodas. Selena also finds solace in conversations with her mother - who comforts and advises her from beyond. Eventually Selena discovers her talent for writing poetry - her ultimate means of escape and expression. Savor this coming-of-age story - a story of finding one's way when the only constant in the world was change.