The slender thread [electronic resource] : Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860 / by Willeen Keough.
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TextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-Book | ACLS Gutenberg-e series | ACLS Humanities E-Book | ACLS Gutenberg-e seriesPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2009, c2006.Edition: ACLS Humanities E-Book electronic editionOther title: - Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860
- 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 con ditions -- 18th century
- Irish -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Social con ditions -- 19th century
- Irish -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic c onditions -- 18th century
- Irish -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic c onditions -- 19th century
- Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Social con ditions -- 18th century
- Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Social con ditions -- 19th century
- Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic c onditions -- 18th century
- Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic c onditions -- 19th century
- Ireland -- Emigration and immigration
- Avalon Peninsula (N.L.) -- Emigration and immigration
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Memorial University of Newfou ndland, 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 : tr acing Irish women on the southern Avalon -- 4. "A good, hard-working st ump 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 wom en 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 wome n's sexuality on the southern Avalon -- 9. The "Other" woman -- 10. The slender thread cast on.
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