Compassionate Stranger
Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine
Author: Maureen O'Rourke Murphy Series: Irish Studies
The first major biography of Asenath Nicholson and a first-hand account of the Great Irish Famine.
The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman.
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The first major biography of Asenath Nicholson and a first-hand account of the Great Irish Famine.
The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman.
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The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman.
Critic Reviews
“This compelling biography offers a much needed portrait of one of the most significant commentators on Ireland before and during the Great Irish Famine; Murphy's welcome and highly entertaining study greatly advances our understanding of the political and social contexts which shaped her.”
“Murphy’s beautifully written book is a fitting tribute to the kindness and compassion of Asenath Nicholson. It is also the work of an accomplished historian who has devoted five decades in pursuit of her fascinating—if at times shadowy—subject.” —Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies
“[Nicholson’s] sharp, compassionate, first-hand accounts of the human dimension of Irish poverty were rooted in direct experience. For this reason her evidence is of exceptional value. Her life and work have found an exceptional chronicler.”—Irish Literary Supplement
“Compassionate Stranger is not only a notable academic achievement but is also a readable and tantalizing story of one powerful woman’s drive to bring justice to the marginalized.”—Irish America
“Meticulously researched, beautifully written, Compassionate Stranger is a gift to scholarship, literature, Ireland, and to readers everywhere who seek to understand both the hardship and nobility of the poor.”—Roger Rosenblatt, essayist for Time magazine and PBS NewsHour.
About the Author
Maureen O’Rourke Murphy is the Joseph L. Dionne Professor of Teaching, Literacy, and Leadership at Hofstra University. She is coeditor of An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, Drama, the editor of Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger and Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848, and 1849, and the director of New York State’s Great Irish Famine Curriculum.
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