The G’hals of New York and other Cities at Work and Play

In the cities along the northeastern seaboard in mid-nineteenth-century America, a feminine counterculture appeared among young Anglo-American and Irish immigrant women. Known as G’hals, most were relatively newcomers to urban life who worked in such preindustrial occupations as seamstresses, millin...

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