Never Without a Song: The Years and Songs of Jennie Devlin, 1865-1952

by Katharine D. Newman

Never Without a Song focuses on the centrality of folksong in the life of Jennie Devlin, a woman who worked for fourteen years as a "bound-out girl," or serving maid, along the New York-Pennsylvania border in the late 1800s. Largely ignored and unwanted, Devlin persevered through Dickensian misfortunes to find love and raise a family (often alone) in Philadelphia and Gloucester, New Jersey. Katharine Newman met Devlin in 1936 and compiled information...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252063716
• ISBN13: 9780252063718
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"