The slender thread, Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860, by Willeen Keough
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The slender thread, Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860, by Willeen Keough
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliography
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002.
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no index present
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non fiction
Main title
The slender thread
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electronic resource
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bibliographytheses
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by Willeen Keough
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ACLS Humanities E-BookACLS Gutenberg-e series
Sub title
Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860
Table Of 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
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Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860
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- Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Social conditions -- 18th century
- Irish -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
- Irish -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Social conditions -- 18th century
- Avalon Peninsula (N.L.) -- Emigration and immigration
- Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
- Women immigrants -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- History -- 18th century
- Ireland -- Emigration and immigration
- Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Women immigrants -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- History -- 19th century
- Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
- Irish -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
- Irish -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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- Avalon Peninsula (N.L.) -- Emigration and immigration
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- Women immigrants -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- History -- 18th century
- Ireland -- Emigration and immigration
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