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Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century

Hasia R. Diner

The most sensitive treatment of Irish culture... [and] the most complete history we have of the Irish female experience. -- Labor History. The most sensitive treatment of Irish culture... [and] the most complete history we have of the Irish female experience. -- Labor History. The most sensitive treatment of Irish culture... [and] the most complete history we have of the Irish female experience. -- Labor History

Book Details

  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publish Date: Nov 1st, 1983
  • Pages: 208
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.08in - 5.94in - 0.49in - 0.65lb
  • EAN: 9780801828720
  • Categories: United States - General

About the Author

Diner, Hasia R.: - Hasia Diner is professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Erin's Daughters in America and A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880 (Volume II in the series The Jewish People in America), both available from Johns Hopkins.

Praise for this book

The most sensitive treatment of Irish culture . . . [and] the most complete history we have of the Irish female experience.

-- "Labor History"

A vision of women with their own economic aspirations, actively engaged in the climb towards financial security.

-- "Women's Review of Books"