Maria Mathews

Report of the thirty-fifth (fortieth) Annual Examination of the Albany Female Academy, and of the exercises of the Alumnæ of the Institution, on their seventh (twelfth) anniversary

• Author(s): Albany Female Academy (ALBANY, N.Y.)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1853
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Reports of Cases Determined in the Court of Chancery, and in the Prerogative Court, And, on Appeal, in the Court of Errors and Appeals, of the State of New-Jersey. [1845-1853]

• Author(s): New Jersey. Court of Chancery

• Categories: Equity

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1854
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Parliamentary Papers

• Author(s): Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons

• Categories: Bills, Legislative

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1911
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• Publisher: Unknown

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We Seven, a Family Story

• Author(s): Donna Todd McBryan

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1979
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Charitable Words

• Author(s): Margaret Preston

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2004-10-30
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• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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 influenced how Ireland's philanthropists thought of and related to the poor. While much has been written on the perceived racial inferiority of the Celt as compared to the Anglo-Saxon, Preston suggests that the Irish upper classes, in seeking to gain...