The Widow's Shield
Women and Eighteenth-Century Irish Freemasonry
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jrff.v4i1.194Keywords:
Ireland, female freemasonry, lodges, women, Elizabeth AldworthAbstract
In this article it is argued that, while there is no documentary evidence for the existence of female freemasonry in Ireland in the eighteenth century, freemasonry indirectly impacted the lives of many Irish women.
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2014-12-30
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Mirala, P. (2014). The Widow’s Shield: Women and Eighteenth-Century Irish Freemasonry. Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, 4(1-2), 194–202. https://doi.org/10.1558/jrff.v4i1.194
