Women and the country house in Ireland and Britain


Terence Dooley, Maeve O'Riordan & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Paperback €26.95
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ISBN: 978-1-84682-647-4
March 2018. 296pp; ills.

The architectural endeavours of the widowed Jemima Yorke, Marchioness Grey
Amy Boyington

Sisters and sisters-in-law at Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
Kerry Bristol

Five women of Monksgrange, Co. Wexford
Philip Bull

The women of Ulster's country houses and the organization of Ulster Day
Jonathan Cherry & Arlene Crampsie

Madeline Wyndham of Clouds and Mabel Morrison of Fonthill
Caroline Dakers

Catherine Maria Bury of Charleville Castle, Co. Offaly, 1800–12
Judith Hill

Lady Harriet Kavanagh, 1800–85
Edmund Joyce

Sisterly guidance: elite women, sorority and the life cycle, 1770–1860
Ruth Larsen

Lady Gregory’s domesticated landscape and forestry
 Anna Pilz

The Rebecca Riots and a female landowner’s response to Welsh rural protest, 1843–4
Lowri Ann Rees

Mildred Darby’s novel, The Hunger
Ciarán Reilly

Rosalind Howard, the contradictory countess of Carlisle
Christopher Ridgway

Dorothy Parsons’ Booke of Choyce Receipts
Regina Sexton 

Louisa Conolly’s letters to her sister Sarah Bunbury
Brendan Twomey

Louisa Moore of Moorehall: a life in letters
Fiona White