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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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