Irish women's letters /
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| Imprint: | New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997. |
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| Description: | xv, 224 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2787131 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Edna O'Brien
- Medieval. The Earliest Irish Woman's Letter / Saint Brid (Brigid, Bridget). A Shrewd Deal. Legal Action. Further Legal Action / Rohesia de Verdun. A Lady in Legal Difficulties / Amicia de Lucy. The Resignation of an Abbess. A Further Plea to the King
- Tudor / Mariota, Prioress of Clonard. A Plea for Justice. The Petition. Further Difficulties. A Plea for Money Due and Pardon for Debts. A Final Plea / Anne, Lady Skeffyngton. A Prayer for her Security / Ursula, Lady St Leger. Provision for the Future / Lady Fytzwylliam. A Wife's Plea to her Husband / Katherin Eggarton. A Wronged Woman Seeks Justice / Joan Moclere. Governments Were Always the Slowest Payers / Mary Carleill. Grainne's Answers to the Articles of Interrogatory. A Petition to the Queen. The Tigress Appeals for Support
- The Seventeenth Century / Grainne ni Mhaille. A Poor Pensioner. Still a Poor Pensioner / Lady Stewart O'Donnell. An Embarrassing Confession / Lady Falkland. A Petition to the King / Mary Preston. A Petition to the King. If at First ... / Margaret Blake. A Very Personal Letter / Dorothy, Lady Rawdon. An Impoverished Widow / Mary, Baroness Widdrington. Another Petitioning Wife / Susanna O'Brien. Give Me Land ... A Year Later ... / Lady Belhaven. 'Princely Debonarity'. An Additional Memorial / Martha Hatt. A Petition. Dissimulation
- The Eighteenth Century / Katherine Fitzgerald. High Society in Dublin. A Visit to Wicklow / Mary Delany (nee Granville). A Mother's Solicitude / Ann McCracken (nee Joy). To her Brother in Kilmainham Jail. Fear, Suspicion and Intrigue. Frustration and Indignation. Her Brother's Last Request. A Letter Never Read by its Recipient. The Welfare of Workers
- The Early Nineteenth Century / Mary Ann McCracken. Transatlantic Crossing. The Death of a Child / Mary Cumming (nee Craig). Keen Observation and Lucid Reporting. Fashionable Life. Dinner Anecdotes, Trees and Shrubs. Late for Dinner / Maria Edgeworth. Faith Restored. Her Father's Operation. A Reply to a Poet / Charlotte Bronte. Emily's Birthday Note. Four Years of Family Fortunes - An Alternative View / Emily Jane Bronte. Anne's Birthday Note. Four Years in the Life of a Family
- The Late Nineteenth Century / Anne Bronte. News from Ireland / Eliza Dalton. Seven Years Later / Isabella Alice Wyly. A Most Unfortunate Letter. Post-trial Indignation. The Indignation Continues / Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (nee Elgee) ('Speranza'). Drink My Health / Brigid (Biddy) Burke. Amateur Theatricals. The Death of her Mother / Edith Oenone Somerville. Queen Victoria's Jubilee Procession. Drunken Drivers / Violet Florence Martin (Martin Ross). A Wife's Desperation. A Wife's Indignation
- The Twentieth Century / Constance Mary Wilde (nee Lloyd). The Anxiety of a Wife. University Endowments. A Visit to the Front. In Praise of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom / Charlotte Frances Shaw (nee Payne-Townshend). An Agrarian Activist Shows Compassion. Reflections on the Irish Rebellion / Maud Gonne MacBride. A Formal Love Letter. A Natural Love Letter. An Unsatisfactory Holiday / Nora Joyce (nee Barnacle). Theatre Politics / Florence Darragh. The Practicalities of Imprisonment. Exile / Constance Countess Markievicz (nee Gore-Booth). Love and Inexperience. A Proposal / Catherine (Kitty) Kiernan. Family Tension. Family Matters / Lily Yeats. Home Rule. War / Helen Waddell. Christmas in a Buddhist Temple. Japanese Proposals, Theatre and Weddings. Appendix: Epistolary Novels
- Selected Ancillary Biographies. Revd Patrick Bronte. William Cecil, Lord Burghley. John Colgan. Micheal Collins. James Joyce. Henry Joy McCracken. Thomas Russell. George Bernard Shaw. Robert Southey. Oscar Wilde. Sir William Wilde. William Butler Yeats.
