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In The Slender Thread, Willeen Keough explores the lives of Irish-Newfoundland women who co-founded fishing communities along the southern Avalon Peninsula in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through meticulous research, skillful layering of evidence, and interweaving of traditional and nontraditional sources, Keough challenges us to move women from the periphery to the center of migration and early settlement narratives in North America…. More >>
The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860