My Lady Of The Chimney-Corner & The Souls Of Poor Folk
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: none. Blurb from flap taped onto inside of binding. Binding condition: Binding intact but held together with tape throughout (neatly), usual shelf-wear.
In the poverty-stricken villages of rural Ireland, where life is hard and dignity is harder to keep, Alexander Irvine's My Lady of the Chimney-Corner chronicles the extraordinary life of his mother, Anna Irvine — a woman of fierce tenderness and quiet courage who transforms a threadbare existence into something approaching grace. Set against the bleak backdrop of 19th-century Antrim, this memoir-like narrative captures the intimate world of the Irish poor with unflinching honesty and deep emotional resonance. Paired with The Souls of Poor Folk, a companion work that widens the lens to survey the lives of the dispossessed with equal compassion, the volume presents a portrait of human endurance that is as politically charged as it is personally felt. Irvine writes with the authority of lived experience — born into the very poverty he describes — and his prose carries the rhythms of oral storytelling, rooted in the cadences of Irish speech and the moral weight of social conscience. These works stand as important documents of working-class literature, bearing witness to lives history too often erases. Together, they ask a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it cost a society to ignore the souls of its poor?
Author: Alexander Irvine
Format: Hardback
Published: 1930, Collins Clear-Type Press
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: none. Blurb from flap taped onto inside of binding. Binding condition: Binding intact but held together with tape throughout (neatly), usual shelf-wear.
In the poverty-stricken villages of rural Ireland, where life is hard and dignity is harder to keep, Alexander Irvine's My Lady of the Chimney-Corner chronicles the extraordinary life of his mother, Anna Irvine — a woman of fierce tenderness and quiet courage who transforms a threadbare existence into something approaching grace. Set against the bleak backdrop of 19th-century Antrim, this memoir-like narrative captures the intimate world of the Irish poor with unflinching honesty and deep emotional resonance. Paired with The Souls of Poor Folk, a companion work that widens the lens to survey the lives of the dispossessed with equal compassion, the volume presents a portrait of human endurance that is as politically charged as it is personally felt. Irvine writes with the authority of lived experience — born into the very poverty he describes — and his prose carries the rhythms of oral storytelling, rooted in the cadences of Irish speech and the moral weight of social conscience. These works stand as important documents of working-class literature, bearing witness to lives history too often erases. Together, they ask a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it cost a society to ignore the souls of its poor?