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- catalog abstract "In early April of 1888, sixteen-year-old Mary Ann Donovan stood alone on the quays of Queenstown in county Cork waiting to board a ship for Boston in far-off America. She was but one of almost 700,000 young, usually unmarried women, traveling alone, who left their homes in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a move unprecedented in the annals of European emigration. Using a wide variety of sources -- many of which appear here for the first time -- including personal reminiscences, interviews, oral histories, letter, and autobiographies as well as data from Irish and American census and emigration repots, Janet Nolan makes a sustained analysis of this migration of a generation of young women that puts a new light on Irish social and economic history. By the late nineteenth century changes in Irish life combined to make many young women unneeded in their households and communities; rather than accept a marginal existence, they elected to seek a better life in a new world, often with the encouragement and help of a female relative who had already emigrated. Mary Ann Donovan's journey was representative of thousands of journeys made by Irish women who could truly claim that they had seized control over their lives, by themselves, alone. This book tells their story.".
- catalog alternative "Women's emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920.".
- catalog contributor b2360944.
- catalog coverage "Ireland Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog created "c1989.".
- catalog date "1989".
- catalog date "c1989.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1989.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [118]-129.".
- catalog description "In early April of 1888, sixteen-year-old Mary Ann Donovan stood alone on the quays of Queenstown in county Cork waiting to board a ship for Boston in far-off America. She was but one of almost 700,000 young, usually unmarried women, traveling alone, who left their homes in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a move unprecedented in the annals of European emigration. Using a wide variety of sources -- many of which appear here for the first time -- including personal reminiscences, interviews, oral histories, letter, and autobiographies as well as data from Irish and American census and emigration repots, Janet Nolan makes a sustained analysis of this migration of a generation of young women that puts a new light on Irish social and economic history. By the late nineteenth century changes in Irish life combined to make many young women unneeded in their households and communities; rather than accept a marginal existence, they elected to seek a better life in a new world, often with the encouragement and help of a female relative who had already emigrated. Mary Ann Donovan's journey was representative of thousands of journeys made by Irish women who could truly claim that they had seized control over their lives, by themselves, alone. This book tells their story.".
- catalog extent "xii, 133 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Ourselves alone.".
- catalog identifier "0813116848 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Ourselves alone.".
- catalog issued "1989".
- catalog issued "c1989.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,".
- catalog relation "Ourselves alone.".
- catalog spatial "Ireland Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog spatial "Ireland".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "304.8/3730415 20".
- catalog subject "HQ1600.3 .N65 1989".
- catalog subject "Irish United States History.".
- catalog subject "Single women Ireland Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Women immigrants United States History.".
- catalog subject "Young women Ireland Social conditions.".
- catalog title "Ourselves alone : women's emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920 / Janet A. Nolan.".
- catalog title "Women's emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".