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The Irish Bridget

Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930

The Irish Bridget( )
Author: Lynch-Brennan, Margaret
Series title:Irish Studies
ISBN:978-0-8156-3201-6
Publication Date:Apr 2009
Publisher:Syracuse University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $39.95
Book Description:

'Bridget' was the Irish immigrant service girl who worked in American homes from the second half of the nineteenth century into the early years of the twentieth. She is widely known as a pop culture cliche: the young girl who wreaks havoc in middle-class American homes. This book tells the story of such Irish domestic servants.

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