Bad Bridget :
Farrell, Elaine
Bad Bridget : crime, mayhem and the lives of Irish emigrant women / Elaine Farrell, Leanne McCormick. - 288 pages ; 24 cm
Podcast tie-in.
Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. Some lived lives of quiet industry and piety. Others quickly found themselves in trouble - bad trouble, and on an astonishing scale. Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, creators of the celebrated 'Bad Bridget' podcast, reveal the social forces that bred this mayhem and dysfunction, through stories that are brilliantly strange, sometimes funny, and often moving.
9781844885817 (pbk.) : £14.99 £14.99
Female offenders--History--United States--19th century.
Female offenders--History--United States--20th century.
Women immigrants--Social conditions--United States--19th century.
Women immigrants--Social conditions--United States--20th century.
Irish--Social conditions--United States--19th century.
Irish--Social conditions--United States--20th century.
Irish--Migrations--History--19th century.
Irish--Migrations--History--20th century.
True Crime.
HV6046
364.37
Bad Bridget : crime, mayhem and the lives of Irish emigrant women / Elaine Farrell, Leanne McCormick. - 288 pages ; 24 cm
Podcast tie-in.
Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. Some lived lives of quiet industry and piety. Others quickly found themselves in trouble - bad trouble, and on an astonishing scale. Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, creators of the celebrated 'Bad Bridget' podcast, reveal the social forces that bred this mayhem and dysfunction, through stories that are brilliantly strange, sometimes funny, and often moving.
9781844885817 (pbk.) : £14.99 £14.99
Female offenders--History--United States--19th century.
Female offenders--History--United States--20th century.
Women immigrants--Social conditions--United States--19th century.
Women immigrants--Social conditions--United States--20th century.
Irish--Social conditions--United States--19th century.
Irish--Social conditions--United States--20th century.
Irish--Migrations--History--19th century.
Irish--Migrations--History--20th century.
True Crime.
HV6046
364.37