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"I wish to keep a record" : Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick Women Diarists and Their World /
Nineteenth-century New Brunswick society was dominated by white, Protestant, Anglophone men. Yet, during this time of state formation in Canada, women increasingly helped to define and shape a provincial outlook. I wish to keep a record is the first book to focus exclusively on the life-course exper...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Biographical Information for the Diarists
- Map: The Counties of New Brunswick
- Introduction
- 1. The Diarists
- 2. Reading Nineteenth-Century Diaries: A Historian's Perspective
- 3. The Life Course in Demographic Context: Women's Experience
- 4. Three Generations: Women of Their Time and Place
- 5. From Innocent Flirtation to Formal Courtship
- 6. The World of the Family
- 7. Households of Independent Women
- 8. Sociability and Social Networks
- 9. Schooling and Scholars
- 10. A Sustaining Faith
- 11. Work in the Home
- 12. Beyond the Bounds of Family: Paid Work
- 13. Politics and Social Reform
- 14. A Cosmopolitan Outlook
- 15. In the Midst of Life
- Conclusion