TY  - GEN
AU  - Keough,Willeen G.
TI  - The slender thread: Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860 
T2  - ACLS Humanities E-Book
PY  - 2009///, c2006
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Newfoundland and Labrador
KW  - Avalon Peninsula
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Avalon Peninsula (N.L.)
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - Irish
KW  - Women
N1  - 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)
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb99011
ER  -