FAMINE LETTERS AND EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS
K. D. M. Snell (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "Alexander Somerville and the Irish Famine," in Letters from Ireland during the Famine of 1847, by Alexander Somerville, edited by K. D. M. Snell, Irish Academic Press, 1994, pp. 7-24.
[The following is an introduction to Scottish writer Alexander Somerville's Letters from Ireland (the letters were originally published at the time of their composition [1847] in newspaper reports in the Manchester Examiner, and later as part of Somerville's The...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©1998 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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