Francesca talks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ron Suskind about . Also, Elizabeth Winthrop on , the story of an 11-year old girl working in the textile mills of Vermont at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Web Extra: Elizabeth Winthrop’s Discovery of Addie Card
October 4th, 2008
Elizabeth Winthrop paints a vivid portrait of the plight of child laborers in the New England textile mills in the early 1900′s. She bases her main character, Grace, on the photograph by Lewis Hine of a young girl posed in front of her machine. While writing the book, Winthrop went in search of the real [...]
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