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Compassionate Stranger : Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine /

The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman. Trained as a school teacher, Nicholson was involved in the abolitionist, temperance, and diet reforms of the day before she left New York in 1844 "to personally inv...

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Autor principal: Murphy, Maureen O'Rourke (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Syracuse University Press, [2015]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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