- Description
- 1 online resource (xxv, 366 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Series Statement
- Irish studies
- Uniform Title
- Compassionate stranger (Online)
- Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- Alternative Title
- Compassionate stranger (Online)
- Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-344) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2014953939
- OCLC
- ssj0001481220
- Author
Murphy, Maureen O'Rourke.
- Title
Compassionate stranger [electronic resource] : Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine / Maureen O'Rourke Murphy.
- Imprint
Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2015.
- Edition
First edition.
- Series
Irish studies
Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-344) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
1800 - 1899