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The Slender Thread
Irish Women on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860
by Willeen Keough
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Preface
1. Picking Up the Thread
2. The Slender Thread Cast Off: Migration & Reception
3. Ciphering Ciphers: Tracing Irish Women
4. "A good, hard-working stump of a girl": Work and Identity
5. "She made the cannonballs, and he fired them": Informal Power
6. "Humbel" Petitioners and "Litigeous" Persons: Formal Justice
7. "Whilst Grass Grows or Water Run": Testation Practices
8. "To fix [their] character… in virtue and innocence": Women's Sexuality
9. The "Other" Woman on the Southern Shore
10. The Slender Thread Cast On
Map of Southern Avalon
Bibliography
Glossary
Case File Archive
Appendix A: Plebeian and Elite Communities
Appendix B: Historiography, Sources, Study Area, and Naming Patterns
Appendix C: Women's Presence in the Mercantile Accounts
Appendix D: Marital and Other Family Arrangements in Ferryland District
Appendix E: Partial Family Tree, Carter–Morry Families
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