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Compassionate Stranger
Compassionate Stranger
Subtitle:
Aesnath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine
Book Category:
Biography & Autobiography > General
Editor::
Maureen Murphy
Binding:
Cloth
ISBN 13:
9780815610441
Publication Year:
2014

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Syracuse University Press.

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Book 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."

 

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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