Compassionate Stranger: Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Maureen O'Rourke MurphySeries:Irish StudiesPublish date:2016-08-23Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815610762ISBN-10:815610769UPC:9780815610762Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Historical, Social Activists, WomenSize:9.07 x 6.00 x 0.86 inchesWeight:1.1707Product ID:SCXFNG9Q8A
Compassionate Stranger: Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine
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...
Series: Irish Studies
Language:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815610762ISBN-10:815610769UPC:9780815610762Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Historical, Social Activists, WomenSize:9.07 x 6.00 x 0.86 inchesWeight:1.1707Product ID:SCXFNG9Q8A
Maureen O'Rourke Murphy is the Joseph L. Dionne Professor of Teaching, Literacy, and Leadership at Hofstra University. She is coeditor of An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, Drama, the editor of Ireland's Welcome to the Stranger, and Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848 and 1849 , and the Director of New York State's Great Irish Famine Curriculum.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
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