Compassionate Stranger: Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine Contributor(s): Murphy, Maureen O'Rourke (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815610769 ISBN-13: 9780815610762 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
Dewey: B |
Series: Irish Studies |
Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6" W x 9.07" (1.17 lbs) 400 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Ireland - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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. |