I never could forget my darling mother’
The language of recollection in a corpus of female Irish emigrant correspondence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12447386 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Moreton (0000-0003-4182-4586, Coventry University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 315-336 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The History of the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1081-602X • E-ISSN: 1873-5398 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1081602x.2016.1155469 |
| OpenAlex | W2315929698 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 32 |
The post-famine period from the 1850s to the 1920s was a time that saw a significant\nincrease in female migration from Ireland to North America. Economic changes in\nIreland, including declining wage-earning capabilities due to the de-industrialisation\nof the Irish countryside, as well as changes in inheritance practices from partible to\nimpartible inheritance systems, led to changes in marriage trends. In short, women\nmarried ‘less frequently and at later ages than in the pre-famine past’, thus\ncontributing to ‘a massive post-famine emigration by young, unmarried women’\n(Miller et. al., 1995, p. 3). Between 1852 and 1921 the median age for female Irish\nemigrants was 21.2 and after 1880 young women constituted the majority of the\ndeparting Irish (Miller, 1985, p. 392). A small glimpse into the lives of these young\nwomen – their preoccupations, experiences, perceptions and beliefs – can be found in\nthe letters they wrote home to their families in Ireland
Aesthetics · Art · Closeness · Cognitive psychology · Famine · Feeling · Irish · Linguistics · Perception · Period (music · Reading (process · Recall · Sociology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Gender Studies · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Psychology · Social Psychology
Emigrants and exiles
The Irish diaspora
Doing Emotions History
The Navigation of Feeling
Lexical Priming
Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis
An Introduction to Functional Grammar
The Irish in Australia
Chronicling Poverty
Letters across Borders
Feminists Theorize the Political
I hope you will write”
White Field, Black Seeds
Authors of Their Lives
Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937
Ireland and Irish America
From key words to key semantic domains
The History Manifesto
Oceans of Consolation
Primogeniture and Ultimogeniture in Rural Ireland
Pragmatics
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |