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| Genre/Form: | Biography History |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Asenath Nicholson; Asenath Nicholson; Asenath Nicholson |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maureen O'Rourke Murphy |
| ISBN: | 9780815610441 0815610440 9780815610762 0815610769 |
| OCLC Number: | 878299177 |
| Description: | xxv, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.) |
| Other Titles: | Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine |
| Responsibility: | Maureen O'Rourke Murphy. |
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The author has brought the story of a remarkable American woman, Asenath Nicholson, to a wider audience. While the book is based on an impressive range of primary source material, it is written in such a way as to have a much wider appeal. . . . Nicholson s own writings are already mandatory reading in a number of Irish history courses in Ireland and the US, and this book will become an essential companion.--Christine Kinealy "author of This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845-52 "" "Compassionate Stranger" is a landmark work of historical exploration and scholarship. Murphy has succeeded in rescuing from undeserved obscurity a woman of fierce determination and extraordinary compassion. Meticulously researched and lucidly written, "Compassionate Stranger" gives us Asenath Nicholson in full: social reformer, abolitionist, temperance crusader, missionary, and angel of mercy among the Irish people in the hour of their greatest need.--Peter Quinn "bestselling author of Dry Bones " This compelling biography offers a much needed portrait of one of the most significant commentators on Ireland before and during the Great Irish Famine; Murphy s welcome and highly entertaining study greatly advances our understanding of the political and social contexts which shaped her.--Margaret Kelleher "author of Feminization of Famine "" It takes one extraordinary mind to know another, and Maureen Murphy s story of Asenath Nicholson proves it. Had Murphy not unearthed and revealed the tale of Nicholson s tireless courage and intelligent kindness toward the Irish during the Great Famine, we would not know of a remarkable woman or of a time, place and people indispensable to history. 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 "" Read more...
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- Nicholson, Asenath, -- 1792-1855.
- Missionaries.
- Starvation -- history.
- Poverty -- history.
- History, 19th Century.
- Ireland.
- United States.
- Missionaries -- United States -- 19th century -- Biography.
- Philanthropists -- United States -- 19th century -- Biography.
- Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852.
- Philanthropists.
