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Do Penance or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland Finnegan, Frances (Lecturer in Social History, Lecturer in Social History, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Do Penance or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland
Finnegan, Frances (Lecturer in Social History, Lecturer in Social History, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums - homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. This work presents case histories of individual women and their experiences in Magdalen homes, which claimed some 30,000 women in all.
268 pages, numerous halftones and tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 8, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195174601 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 284 |
| Dimensions | 154 × 229 × 18 mm · 430 g |
| Language | English |