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Irish Women's Letters - Laurence Flanagan

This wide-ranging selection of letters, written by women from every conceivable background - the big houses of the Anglo-Irish gentry, small farms scattered throughout the countryside, urban slums, middle-class houses in cities, and Irish emigrants abroad - offers us an insight into the reality of Irish women's lives through the centuries, from St Brigid who founded a monastery in the fifth century up to the late twentieth century. They tell us of the concerns they felt, their sorrows and joys, their friendships, their thoughts on art and politics, and their love for both kind and country.Maud Gonne McBride writes to W.B. Yeats in 1916 of how she is 'overwhelmed by the tragedy & the greatness of the sacrifice our countrymen & women have made'; Nora Barnacle declares her love to her future husband, the writer James Joyce, and how 'when I awake in the morning I will think of nothing but you': Irish emigrant Mary Cumming tells her sister of their luck on the ship in having 'a very good cow on board, so that we have plenty of good milk, which is the greatest luxury at sea you can imagine'; and other less well-known women exchange thoughts on their day-to-day lives and the times through which they lived. Entertaining and informative, this book not only provides a captivating insight into past women's lives, but also gives us first-hand accounts of some of they key events in Irish history and politics.
Autor: Laurence Flanagan
Wydawnictwo: Sutton Publishing
Rok wydania: 1999
Stron: 224
ISBN: 0-7[zasłonięte]509-22-2
EAN: 978[zasłonięte][zasłonięte]09221
Format: 13,5/21cm
Oprawa: miękka
Język: angielski


Stan: nowa, nie używana