The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930

by Margaret Lynch-Brennan

Book Overview

"Bridget" was the Irish immigrant servant 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 clich the young girl who wreaked havoc in middle-class American homes. Now, in the first book-length treatment of the topic, Margaret Lynch-Brennan tells the real story of such Irish domestic servants, providing a richly detailed portrait of their lives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815632010
• ISBN13: 9780815632016
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"