Compassionate Stranger: Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine by Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman.
Compassionate Stranger
Compassionate Stranger
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The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman.
Compassionate Stranger Summary
Compassionate Stranger Reviews
Murphys beautifully written book is a fitting tribute to the kindness and compassion of Asenath Nicholson. It is also the work of an accomplished historian who has devoted five decades in pursuit of her fascinatingif at times shadowysubject. Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies
[Nicholsons] sharp, compassionate, first-hand accounts of the human dimension of Irish poverty were rooted in direct experience. For this reason her evidence is of exceptional value. Her life and work have found an exceptional chronicler.Irish Literary Supplement
Compassionate Stranger is not only a notable academic achievement but is also a readable and tantalizing story of one powerful womans drive to bring justice to the marginalized.Irish America
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.
[Nicholsons] sharp, compassionate, first-hand accounts of the human dimension of Irish poverty were rooted in direct experience. For this reason her evidence is of exceptional value. Her life and work have found an exceptional chronicler.Irish Literary Supplement
Compassionate Stranger is not only a notable academic achievement but is also a readable and tantalizing story of one powerful womans drive to bring justice to the marginalized.Irish America
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.
About Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
Maureen ORourke Murphy is the Joseph L. Dionne Professor of Teaching, Literacy, and Leadership at Hofstra University. She is coeditor of An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, Drama, the editor of Irelands Welcome to the Stranger and Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848, and 1849, and the director of New York States Great Irish Famine Curriculum.
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Compassionate Stranger: Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine by Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
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Syracuse University Press
2016-07-30
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