The slender thread
Subtitle: Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860
By: by Willeen Keough
Contributors: American Historical Association; Columbia University. Press
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York]
Language: eng
Subjects: Women immigrants; History; Irish; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Women; Emigration and immigration
Other titles: Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860; Gutenberg-e.
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002.

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Table of contents: title: 1. Picking up the thread; title: 2. The slender thread cast off : migration & reception; title: 3. Ciphering ciphers : tracing Irish women; title: 4. "A good, hard-working stump of a girl" : work and identity; title: 5. "She made the cannonballs, and he fired them" : informal power; title: 6. "Humbel" petitioners and "litigeous" lersons : formal justice; title: 7. "Whilst grass grows or water run" : testation practices; title: 8. "To fix [their] character in virtue and innocence" : women's sexuality; title: 9. The "Other" woman on the southern shore; title: 10. The slender thread cast on.