It takes the average reader 3 hours and 3 minutes to read Pit Lasses by Denise Bates
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Women have long been recognised as the backbone of coalmining communities, supporting their men. Less well known is the role which they played as the industry developed, working underground or at the pit head. The year 2012 is the 170th anniversary of the publication of the Report of the Second Childrens Employment Commission. The report caused public outrage in May 1842, revealing that halfdressed women worked underground alongside naked men. Three months later, to protect them from moral corruption, females were banned from working underground. The Commissions report has been neglected as a...
Pit Lasses by Denise Bates is 182 pages long, and a total of 45,864 words.
This makes it 61% the length of the average book. It also has 56% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 10 minutes to read Pit Lasses aloud.
Pit Lasses is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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