Compassionate stranger : Asenath Nicholson and the great Irish famine /

The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman. Trained as a school teacher, Nicholson was involved in the abolitionist, temperance, and diet reforms of the day before she left New York in 1844 "to personally inv...

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Main Author: Murphy, Maureen O'Rourke (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Syracuse University Press, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Irish studies (Syracuse University Press)
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