| Description |
xv, 224 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Edna O'Brien -- Medieval -- Saint Brid (Brigid, Bridget). The Earliest Irish Woman's Letter -- Rohesia de Verdun. A Shrewd Deal. Legal Action. Further Legal Action -- Amicia de Lucy. A Lady in Legal Difficulties -- Mariota, Prioress of Clonard. The Resignation of an Abbess. A Further Plea to the King -- Tudor -- Anne, Lady Skeffyngton. A Plea for Justice. The Petition. Further Difficulties. A Plea for Money Due and Pardon for Debts. A Final Plea -- Ursula, Lady St Leger. A Prayer for her Security -- Lady Fytzwylliam. Provision for the Future -- Katherin Eggarton. A Wife's Plea to her Husband -- Joan Moclere. A Wronged Woman Seeks Justice -- Mary Carleill. Governments Were Always the Slowest Payers -- Grainne ni Mhaille. Grainne's Answers to the Articles of Interrogatory. A Petition to the Queen. The Tigress Appeals for Support -- The Seventeenth Century -- Lady Stewart O'Donnell. A Poor Pensioner. Still a Poor Pensioner -- Lady Falkland. An Embarrassing Confession -- Mary Preston. A Petition to the King -- Margaret Blake. A Petition to the King. If at First ... -- Dorothy, Lady Rawdon. A Very Personal Letter -- Mary, Baroness Widdrington. An Impoverished Widow -- Susanna O'Brien. Another Petitioning Wife -- Lady Belhaven. Give Me Land ... A Year Later ... -- Martha Hatt. 'Princely Debonarity'. An Additional Memorial -- Katherine Fitzgerald. A Petition. Dissimulation -- The Eighteenth Century -- Mary Delany (nee Granville). High Society in Dublin. A Visit to Wicklow -- Ann McCracken (nee Joy). A Mother's Solicitude -- Mary Ann McCracken. To her Brother in Kilmainham Jail. Fear, Suspicion and Intrigue. Frustration and Indignation. Her Brother's Last Request. A Letter Never Read by its Recipient. The Welfare of Workers -- The Early Nineteenth Century -- Mary Cumming (nee Craig). Transatlantic Crossing. The Death of a Child -- Maria Edgeworth. Keen Observation and Lucid Reporting. Fashionable Life. Dinner Anecdotes, Trees and Shrubs. Late for Dinner -- Charlotte Bronte. Faith Restored. Her Father's Operation. A Reply to a Poet -- Emily Jane Bronte. Emily's Birthday Note. Four Years of Family Fortunes -- An Alternative View -- Anne Bronte. Anne's Birthday Note. Four Years in the Life of a Family -- The Late Nineteenth Century -- Eliza Dalton. News from Ireland -- Isabella Alice Wyly. Seven Years Later -- Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (nee Elgee) ('Speranza'). A Most Unfortunate Letter. Post-trial Indignation. The Indignation Continues -- Brigid (Biddy) Burke. Drink My Health -- Edith Oenone Somerville. Amateur Theatricals. The Death of her Mother -- Violet Florence Martin (Martin Ross). Queen Victoria's Jubilee Procession. Drunken Drivers -- Constance Mary Wilde (nee Lloyd). A Wife's Desperation. A Wife's Indignation -- The Twentieth Century -- Charlotte Frances Shaw (nee Payne-Townshend). The Anxiety of a Wife. University Endowments. A Visit to the Front. In Praise of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom -- Maud Gonne MacBride. An Agrarian Activist Shows Compassion. Reflections on the Irish Rebellion -- Nora Joyce (nee Barnacle). A Formal Love Letter. A Natural Love Letter. An Unsatisfactory Holiday -- Florence Darragh. Theatre Politics -- Constance Countess Markievicz (nee Gore-Booth). The Practicalities of Imprisonment. Exile -- Catherine (Kitty) Kiernan. Love and Inexperience. A Proposal -- Lily Yeats. Family Tension. Family Matters -- Helen Waddell. Home Rule. War -- Maura O'Halloran (Soshin). Christmas in a Buddhist Temple. Japanese Proposals, Theatre and Weddings -- Appendix: Epistolary Novels -- Selected Ancillary Biographies. Revd Patrick Bronte. William Cecil, Lord Burghley. John Colgan. Micheal Collins. James Joyce. Henry Joy McCracken. Thomas Russell. George Bernard Shaw. Robert Southey. Oscar Wilde. Sir William Wilde. William Butler Yeats. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216) and index. |
| Subject |
English letters -- Irish authors.
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English prose literature -- Irish authors.
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English prose literature -- Women authors.
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English letters -- Women authors.
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Women -- Ireland -- Correspondence.
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| Added Author |
Flanagan, Laurence.
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| ISBN |
0312177097 cloth |
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