
Compassionate Stranger |
Subtitle:
Aesnath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine
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Book Category:
Biography & Autobiography > General
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Editor::
Maureen Murphy
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Binding:
Cloth
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ISBN 13:
9780815610441
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Publication Year:
2014
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Publisher Info
Syracuse University Press. InquiryBook Description
The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman. Trained as a schoolteacher, Nicholson was involved in the abolitionist, temperance, and diet reforms of the day before she left New York in 1844 "to personally investigate the condition of the Irish poor."
Book Review and Awards
Meticulously researched, beautifully written, Compassionate Stranger is a gift to scholarship, literature, Ireland, and to readers everywhere who seek to understand both the hardship and nobility of the poor." ?Roger Rosenblatt, essayist for Time magazine and PBS NewsHour