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Author Keough, Willeen G., 1955-

Title The slender thread : Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860 / by Willeen Keough
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2009, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource
Series Gutenberg-e series
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
Contents 1. Picking up the thread : locating Irish Newfoundland women in the narrative of migration and settlement -- 2. The slender thread cast off : migration and reception in Newfoundland -- 3. Ciphering ciphers : tracing Irish women on the southern Avalon -- 4. "A good, hard-working stump of a girl" : Irish women's work and the construction of identity on the southern Avalon -- 5. "She made the cannonballs, and he fired them" : Irish Newfounland women and informal power in family and community -- 6. "Humbel" petitioners and "litigeous" lersons : southern Avalon women and encounters with formal justice -- 7. "Whilst grass grows or water run" : testation practices on the southern Avalon -- 8. "To fix [their] character ... in virtue and innocence" : the regulation of Irish women's sexuality on the southern Avalon -- 9. The "Other" woman -- 10. The slender thread cast on
Notes Originally published by Gutenberg-e: www.gutenberg-e.org
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Subject Women immigrants -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- History -- 18th century
Women immigrants -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- History -- 19th century
Irish -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Social conditions -- 18th century
Irish -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Irish -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
Irish -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Social conditions -- 18th century
Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
Emigration and immigration
Irish -- Social conditions
Women -- Economic conditions
Women immigrants
Women -- Social conditions
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
Canada.
SUBJECT Ireland -- Emigration and immigration
Avalon Peninsula (N.L.) -- Emigration and immigration
Subject Ireland
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008037640
ISBN 9780231506939
0231506937
9780231132022
0231132026
Other Titles Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860