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Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women - Elaine Farrell & Leanne McCormick GRAPHIC DESIGN James Herbert was one ofIreland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. Some lived lives of quiet industry and piety. Others quickly found themselves in trouble bad trouble, and on an astonishing scale. Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, creators of the celebrated 'Bad Bridget' podcast, have