Ellen Johnston
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The Factory Girl
Ellen Johnston (1835 - 1874) was a Scottish weaver and poet. She was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, the only child of James Johnston and Mary Bisland. She worked in mills in Belfast, Glasgow and several Dundee mills, including the Verdant Mill and Chapelshade. She died in a poorhouse in Glasgow in 1873.
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Factory Lives: Four Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiographies
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2007
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Autobiography, Poems and Songs of Ellen Johnston
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1867
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Dundee's Literary Lives, Volume 1: Fifteenth to Nineteenth Century
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2003
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James Hogg: A Bard of Nature’s Making
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2007
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The Bards of Angus and the Mearns: An Anthology of the Counties
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1897
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