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• W2282073209 abstract "Reviewed by: Compassionate Stranger: Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine by Maureen O’Rourke Murphy Mary C. Kelly Compassionate Stranger: Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine, by Maureen O’Rourke Murphy, pp. 440. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015. $39.95. The image on the dust jacket of Compassionate Stranger depicts a leaden-skied County Clare landscape divulging topographies of hardship and loss as core features of its stark beauty. The book’s frontispiece presents an equally evocative entrée to its subject-matter. A drawing of Asenath Nicholson, the “compassionate stranger” of the title, portrays a careworn, unadorned female imbued with an air of quietude and subtle intimation of heartache. But her bookish brow and resolute expression showcase the qualities that elevated this woman to prominence in the annals of nineteenth-century reform on both sides of the Atlantic. In a study as evocative as the haunting Clare landscape and the courageous persona initially encountered in this book, Maureen O’Rourke Murphy presents a compelling personal record of the Famine’s course framed against the dynamic reformist culture of the early-to-mid-nineteenth century. Murphy frames Asenath Nicholson’s life within the localities that shaped her identity, commencing with her hardscrabble upbringing in Early National-era Vermont. Born in 1792, the young Asenath advanced toward a career track anchored by teaching and evangelical activism, and constructed on a solid foundation of Yankee and Congregational church archetypes. The homespun qualities of frugality and industriousness characterized and gave meaning to Nicholson’s early life. Her initial forays into teaching were increasingly shaped by the Protestant-led reformist currents coursing through New England’s political culture and vociferously explicated within the contemporary print culture. But this is no dry tour through abolitionist and anti-Masonry campaign literature. Rather, Murphy mines her sources to weave an absorbing cultural and intellectual tapestry; the reader is swept up on the political tides that transported Nicholson from the relative confines of rural Vermont to the cosmopolitan streetscapes of New York City. By the time the thirty-seven-year-old teacher, avid reader, and music aficionado transports her ardor to the city in 1829, with husband and stepchildren in tow, she exemplifies the ideal of the evangelical female crusader of her day. Murphy’s documentation of Nicholson’s involvement in assorted causes— among them, boarding house sanitation, temperance, abolitionism, and nutrition improvement—allow us to visualize her as a busy Christian reformer, [End Page 150] hastening down bustling Lower Manhattan side-streets and scarcely distracted by sidewalk hot-nut and pie-sellers, her arms laden with pamphlets and foodstuffs and the trappings of a caring benefactor. Remarkably, Nicholson gained admittance to the coterie of male journalists and political actors trading theories on contemporary racial, ethnic, and religious-based tensions, daily exemplified by the grim conditions of Lower Manhattan’s slums and shantytowns. Through the company and writings of such crusaders as William Goodell, the Tappan brothers, William Lloyd Garrison, and Horace Greeley—with whom she associated with for more than a decade—and also through her proximity to Margaret Fuller and other familiar agitators, Nicholson developed a trademark practicality in the face of devastating circumstances that would serve her well in famine-era Ireland. Eschewing formal organizing in favor of personal contacts and private initiatives, she emerges as—literally—a woman with a mission. That mission was to improve the conditions of life for those who lacked the means to do so. It was this missionary zeal that brought her to Ireland in 1844, to a country poised on the brink of the greatest calamity in modern European history. Murphy maps Nicholson’s intrepid travels around the most impoverished areas on the southern and western coasts, capturing the nuances of class-based divisions within the middling elements through individuals and families with whom she made contact and subsisted. Her alliances with Father Theobald Mathew and members of Dublin’s Quaker community, and her efforts to meet Daniel O’Connell, describe a historical trajectory into a culture grappling with national calamity as the Famine unfolded, bringing devastation variously experienced according to socio-economic and political status. Murphy wisely uses Nicholson’s voice to articulate the..." @default.
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