The slender thread [electronic resource] : Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860 /
Keough, Willeen G., 1955-
The slender thread Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860 / [electronic resource] : Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860 by Willeen Keough. - ACLS Humanities E-Book electronic edition. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2009, c2006. - ACLS Humanities E-Book ACLS Gutenberg-e series . - ACLS Humanities E-Book. ACLS Gutenberg-e series. .
Caption title ; description based on screen of 2009-03-01. Originally published by Gutenberg-e: www.gutenberg-e.org. E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002.
Includes bibliography.
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.
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--History--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--18th century.--History--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--19th century.--Social conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--18th century.--Social conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--19th century.--Economic conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--18th century.--Economic conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--19th century.--Social conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--18th century.--Social conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--19th century.--Economic conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--18th century.--Economic conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--19th century.
Ireland--Emigration and immigration.
Avalon Peninsula (N.L.)--Emigration and immigration.
Women immigrants Women immigrants Irish Irish Irish Irish Women Women Women Women
The slender thread Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860 / [electronic resource] : Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860 by Willeen Keough. - ACLS Humanities E-Book electronic edition. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2009, c2006. - ACLS Humanities E-Book ACLS Gutenberg-e series . - ACLS Humanities E-Book. ACLS Gutenberg-e series. .
Caption title ; description based on screen of 2009-03-01. Originally published by Gutenberg-e: www.gutenberg-e.org. E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002.
Includes bibliography.
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.
Access restricted to authorized subscribers only.
Electronic text (HTML) and image data (JPG).
Mode of access: Intranet.
2027/heb99011 hdl
--History--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--18th century.--History--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--19th century.--Social conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--18th century.--Social conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--19th century.--Economic conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--18th century.--Economic conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--19th century.--Social conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--18th century.--Social conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--19th century.--Economic conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--18th century.--Economic conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--19th century.
Ireland--Emigration and immigration.
Avalon Peninsula (N.L.)--Emigration and immigration.
Women immigrants Women immigrants Irish Irish Irish Irish Women Women Women Women