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	Acknowledgments
	List of Abbreviations
	Preface
	Chapter 1. Picking Up the Thread
	Chapter 2. The Slender Thread Cast Off: Migration & Reception
	Chapter 3. Ciphering Ciphers: Tracing Irish Women
	Chapter 4. "A good, hard-working stump of a girl": Work and Identity
	Chapter 5. "She made the cannonballs, and he fired them": Informal Power
	Chapter 6. "Humbel" Petitioners and "Litigeous" Persons: Formal Justice
	Chapter 7. "Whilst Grass Grows or Water Run": Testation Practices
	Chapter 8. "To fix [their] character… in virtue and innocence": Women's Sexuality
	Chapter 9. The "Other" Woman on the Southern Avalon
	Chapter 10. The Slender Thread Cast On
	Bibliography


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