Compassionate stranger : Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine / / Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
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| Autore: |
Murphy Maureen O'Rourke
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| Titolo: |
Compassionate stranger : Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine / / Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
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| Pubblicazione: | Syracuse, New York : , : Syracuse University Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
| Disciplina: | 941.5081092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Missionaries - United States - 19th century |
| Philanthropists - United States - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Ireland History Famine, 1845-1852 |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Chronology -- Prologue -- Puritan beginnings on the Vermont frontier -- Social gospels, garrets, and cellars : the New York years, 1831-44 -- An errand in the wilderness : Nicholson in Ireland in 1844 -- "A city on a hill," 1845 -- "If this cup may not pass away from me" : Nicholson begins her famine mission -- "Misery without mask" : Mayo in the winter of 1847-48 -- Back to Cork : "Ireland, I love thee still," 1848 -- Peace and progress, 1848-52 : Nicholson in the UK and on the Continent -- Peace and progress, 1850-51 : lights and shades of Ireland -- Last years -- Afterword. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Compassionate stranger |
| ISBN: | 0-8156-5289-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787496503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Irish studies.