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Bad Bridget
- Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women
Engelsk Paperback
Bad Bridget
- Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women
Engelsk Paperback

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''A captivating account of lives previously ignored'' Sunday Independent

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, have unearthed a world in which Irish women actually outnumbered Irish men in prison, in which you could get locked up for ''stubbornness'', and in which a serial killer called Lizzie Halliday was described by the New York Times as ''the worst woman on earth''. They reveal the social forces that bred this mayhem and dysfunction, through stories that are brilliantly strange, sometimes funny, and often moving. From sex workers and thieves to kidnappers and killers, these Bridgets are young women who have gone from the frying pan of their impoverished homeland to the fire of vast North American cities.

Bad Bridget is a masterpiece of social history and true crime, showing us a fascinating and previously unexplored world.
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''An important, impeccably researched though eminently readable book that charts new territory . . . this could yet be the book of 2023'' Irish Examiner

''I just loved it!'' Ryan Tubridy

''Fascinating'' Irish Times














Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9780241994320
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0241994322
Udg. Dato:
11 jan 2024
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
197mm
Højde:
129mm
Forlag:
Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
11 jan 2024
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