The Herring Girls

by TheresaTomlinson (Author), Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (Photographer)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $5.29

  With her mother paralyzed, 13-year-old Dory is determined to save her brothers and sisters from the workhouse. When the herring fleet arrives in Whitby and the herring girls come south to gut the fish, she and two companions quickly become proficient. By the author of The Flither Pickers.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.25

  With her mother paralyzed, 13-year-old Dory Lythe is determined to save her brothers and sisters from the workhouse. When the herring fleet arrives in Whitby and the big Scottish girls come south to gut the fish, Dory resolves to rise above the brutal reality of life as a herring girl.