| Your Fondest Annie: Letters from Annie O'Donnell to James P. Phelan 1901-1904 Contributor(s): O'Donnell, Annie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1904558372 ISBN-13: 9781904558378 Publisher: University College Dublin Press OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2005 Annotation: Annie O'Donnell left Ireland for America in 1898. one of 15,175 Irish women who left that year, most of them going into domestic service. On the boat to America she became friends with Jim Phelan. a 22-year-old farmer who had run away from home to join his uncle in Indianapolis. Annie went to work as a children's nurse for the W. L. Mellon family of Pittsburgh. Her letters to Jim Phelan, published for the first time, are a unique contribution to the growing literature on women's emigration. Annie O'Donnell had been well educated in Ireland and her letters are lively and enjoyable to read. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Letters |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005432441 |
| Series: Classics of Irish History |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.96" W x 7.36" (0.34 lbs) 154 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Annie O'Donnell left her native Galway for America in 1898, one of 15,175 Irish women who left that year; they far outnumbered the men, and most of them went into domestic service. She became friends with Jim Phelan on the ship to Philadelphia. He was a 22-year-old farmer from Co. Kilkenny who had run away from home during Sunday mass to join his uncle, a tilesetter in Indianapolis. Annie went to work as a children's nurse for the W. L. Mellon family of Pittsburgh. Her letters to Jim Phelan, published here for the first time, are a unique contribution to the growing literature on women's emigration: they provide a sustained three-year narrative of her life as a children's nurse. Annie O'Donnell had been well educated in Ireland and her letters are lively and enjoyable to read. Maureen Murphy has provided an introduction and notes to the letters. |