Author: Asenath Nicholson
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Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Lights and Shades of Ireland
Author: Asenath Nicholson
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Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Compassionate Stranger
Author: Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815652895
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman. Trained as a school teacher, Nicholson was involved in the abolitionist, temperance, and diet reforms of the day before she left New York in 1844 “to personally investigate the condition of the Irish poor.” She walked alone throughout nearly every county in Ireland and reported on conditions in rural Ireland on the eve of the Great Irish Famine. She published Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger, an account of her travels in 1847. She returned to Ireland in December 1846 to do what she could to relieve famine suffering—first in Dublin and then in the winter of 1847–48 in the west of Ireland where the suffering was greatest. Nicholson’s precise, detailed diaries and correspondence reveal haunting insights into the desperation of victims of the Famine and the negligence and greed of those who added to the suffering. Her account of the Great Irish Famine, Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848 and 1849, is both a record of her work and an indictment of official policies toward the poor: land, employment, famine relief. In addition to telling Nicholson’s story, from her early life in Vermont and upstate New York to her better-known work in Ireland, Murphy puts Nicholson’s own writings and other historical documents in conversation. This not only contextualizes Nicholson’s life and work, but it also supplements the impersonal official records with Nicholson’s more compassionate and impassioned accounts of the Irish poor.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815652895
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman. Trained as a school teacher, Nicholson was involved in the abolitionist, temperance, and diet reforms of the day before she left New York in 1844 “to personally investigate the condition of the Irish poor.” She walked alone throughout nearly every county in Ireland and reported on conditions in rural Ireland on the eve of the Great Irish Famine. She published Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger, an account of her travels in 1847. She returned to Ireland in December 1846 to do what she could to relieve famine suffering—first in Dublin and then in the winter of 1847–48 in the west of Ireland where the suffering was greatest. Nicholson’s precise, detailed diaries and correspondence reveal haunting insights into the desperation of victims of the Famine and the negligence and greed of those who added to the suffering. Her account of the Great Irish Famine, Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848 and 1849, is both a record of her work and an indictment of official policies toward the poor: land, employment, famine relief. In addition to telling Nicholson’s story, from her early life in Vermont and upstate New York to her better-known work in Ireland, Murphy puts Nicholson’s own writings and other historical documents in conversation. This not only contextualizes Nicholson’s life and work, but it also supplements the impersonal official records with Nicholson’s more compassionate and impassioned accounts of the Irish poor.
The Athenaeum
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Dean Alford on Disestablishment
Author: Henry Alford
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Willis's Price Current
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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The Publishers' Circular
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Irish Travel Writing
Author: John McVeagh
Publisher: Wolfhound Press (IE)
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Covering all aspects of travel since the 12th century, this guide provides a reference on Irish travel literature. The book also examines the tradition and content of tourist guides to Ireland. The information included ranges from diary-accounts of journeys undertaken through the country and towns of Ireland, written for the information of others, to private writings, such as the 17th-century account by Mary Granville of her journey to Galway. There are also excerpts from the journals and letters of historical figures, such as John Wesley and Mary Wollstonecraft. Furthermore, the author has added to the bibliographical data for each entry wherever possible, indicating the itinerary followed by the writer in question.
Publisher: Wolfhound Press (IE)
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Covering all aspects of travel since the 12th century, this guide provides a reference on Irish travel literature. The book also examines the tradition and content of tourist guides to Ireland. The information included ranges from diary-accounts of journeys undertaken through the country and towns of Ireland, written for the information of others, to private writings, such as the 17th-century account by Mary Granville of her journey to Galway. There are also excerpts from the journals and letters of historical figures, such as John Wesley and Mary Wollstonecraft. Furthermore, the author has added to the bibliographical data for each entry wherever possible, indicating the itinerary followed by the writer in question.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1410
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1410
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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