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Hardcover Charitable Words: Women, Philanthropy, and the Language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin Book

ISBN: 027597930X

ISBN13: 9780275979300

Charitable Words: Women, Philanthropy, and the Language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin

Mismanaged by local authority, in the 19th-century, Dublin lacked sufficient industrial development to provide adequate employment. Dublin's charitable workers attempted to improve the lives of the thousands who flocked to the city in search of relief. As a means to examining the hidden incentives of charity, the author offers a discussion of the language of charity in this setting. She notes how contemporary notions of race, class, and religion...

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