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Motherland, writings by Irish American women about mothers and daughters, edited and with an introduction by Caledonia Kearns

eng

contains biographical information

no index present

fiction

Motherland

658728

edited and with an introduction by Caledonia Kearns

writings by Irish American women about mothers and daughters

"The bonesetter" [1996] / Carolyn Curtin Alessio -- From Lace curtain [1948] / Ellin Mackay Berlin -- From Uphill walkers [1999] / Madeline Blais -- "The eldest child" [1968] / Maeve Brennan -- From Manhattan, when I was young [1995] / Mary Cantwell -- From The mermaids singing [1998] / Lisa Carey -- From What girls learn [1997] / Karin Cook -- "My mother and politics" [1972] / Mary Doyle Curran -- "Mother and 'Miss E.'" [1988] / M.F.K. Fisher -- From The rebel girl [1955] / Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -- From Wait till next year [1997] / Doris Kearns Goodwin -- "My mother is speaking from the desert" from Shadow man [1996] / Mary Gordon -- From The autobiography of Mother Jones [1925] / Mary Harris "Mother" Jones -- "Trinity" [1999] / Kerry Herlihy -- "Charting life with a daughter" [1977] / Maureen Howard -- "Motherlove" [1999] / Caledonia Kearns -- "The child as houseguest" [1978] / Jean Kerr -- From A likely story : one summer with Lillian Hellman [1998] / Rosemary Mahoney -- From Chasing grace : reflections of a Catholic girl, grown up [1996] / Martha Manning -- "Wildflowers" from Monkeys [1986] / Susan Minot -- "The vocabulary of absence" [1999] / Helena Mulkerns -- "In the beginning" from Living out loud [1988] / Anna Quindlen -- "The need to feed" [1997] / Caroline Ramsay -- "The goal" from The new motherhood [1922] / Margaret Higgins Sanger