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The Irish Bridget : Irish immigrant women in domestic service in America, 1840-1930
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lynch-Brennan, Margaret, Author.
- Lynch-Brennan, Margaret., Author.
- Series:
- Irish studies The Irish Bridget
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Household employees--History--19th century--United States.
- Household employees.
- Household employees--History--20th century--United States.
- Immigrants--United States--History--19th century.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--United States--History--20th century.
- Irish American women--History--19th century--United States.
- Irish American women.
- Irish American women--History--20th century--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] Syracuse University Press 2009
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Bridget" was the Irish immigrant servant girl who worked in American homes from the second half of the nineteenth century into the early years of the twentieth.She is widely known as a pop culture cliché: the young girl who wreaked havoc in middle-class American homes.
- Contents:
- c
- 14_03632 Text SProof
- bc.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- OCLC:
- 882255702
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