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100 _a Keough, Willeen G.,
_d 1955-
245 _a The slender thread
_h [electronic resource] :
_b Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860 /
_c by Willeen Keough.
246 _a Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860
250 _a ACLS Humanities E-Book electronic edition.
260 _a New York :
_b Columbia University Press,
_c 2009, c2006.
490 _a ACLS Humanities E-Book
490 _a ACLS Gutenberg-e series
500 _a Caption title ; description based on screen of 2009-03-01.
500 _a Originally published by Gutenberg-e: www.gutenberg-e.org.
502 _a Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Memorial University of Newfou ndland, 2002.
504 _a Includes bibliography.
505 _a 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.
506 _a Access restricted to authorized subscribers only.
516 _a Electronic text (HTML) and image data (JPG).
536 _a This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Fo undation.
538 _a Mode of access: Intranet.
650 _a Women immigrants
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_x History
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650 _a Women immigrants
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_x History
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650 _a Irish
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650 _a Irish
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650 _a Irish
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650 _a Irish
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650 _a Women
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650 _a Women
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650 _a Women
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650 _a Women
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651 _a Ireland
_x Emigration and immigration.
651 _a Avalon Peninsula (N.L.)
_x Emigration and immigration.
710 _a American Council of Learned Societies.
773 _t ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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830 _a ACLS Gutenberg-e series.
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