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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 September 2009
      04 May 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511522666
      9780521474337
      9780521483612
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522666
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.509kg, 266 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.398kg, 268 Pages
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    This book examines the role of women in philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland. The author focuses initially on the impact of religion on the lives of women and argues that the development of convents in the nineteenth century inhibited the involvement of lay Catholic women in charity work. She goes on to claim that sectarianism dominated women's philanthropic activity, and also analyses the work of women in areas of moral concern, such as prostitution and prison work. The book concludes that the most progressive developments in the care of the poor were brought about by non-conformist women, and a number of women involved in reformist organisations were later to become pioneers in the cause of suffrage. This study makes an important contribution both to Irish history and to our knowledge of women's lives and experiences in the nineteenth century.

    Awards

    Winner of the 1996 American Conference for Irish Studies James S. Donnelly prize for History and Social Sciences

    Reviews

    ‘… a prodigious well researched book, impressive in its scope and detailed in its analysis …’

    Source: Irish Review

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