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Bad Bridget : crime, mayhem and the lives of Irish emigrant women
Farrell, Elaine (Elaine Frances)2024
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Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. Some lived lives of quiet industry and piety. Others quickly found themselves in trouble - bad trouble, and on an astonishing scale. Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, creators of the celebrated 'Bad Bridget' podcast, reveal the social forces that bred this mayhem and dysfunction, through stories that are brilliantly strange, sometimes funny, and often moving.
Main title:
Bad Bridget : crime, mayhem and the lives of Irish emigrant women / Elaine Farrell, Leanne McCormick.
Author:
Farrell, Elaine (Elaine Frances), authorMcCormick, Leanne, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2024.
Collation:
288 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Podcast tie-in.
ISBN:
9780241994320 (pbk)
Dewey class:
364.374089162364.374089
Language:
English
Subject:
Female offenders -- United States -- History -- 19th centuryFemale offenders -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryWomen immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryWomen immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryIrish -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryIrish -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryIrish -- Migrations -- History -- 19th centuryIrish -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century
BRN:
3710728