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A life of propriety : Anne Murray Powell and her family, 1755-1849 /
Anne Murray Powell was born to a middle-class English family in 1765. She was neither famous nor unusually talented, but her story embodies the values of her time, place, and class. Katherine McKenna's biography, based on an extensive collection of letters and papers, shows how the three distin...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1994.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- Prologue
- Introduction
- PART ONE: LEARNING AND LIVING THE LESSONS OF PROPRIETY
- 1 Early Years at Boston
- 2 The Founding of a Family, 1775�1800
- 3 Establishing Social Status: Anne Powell and York Society
- PART TWO: THE INTERSECTIONS OF MALE AND FEMALE GENDER ROLES
- 4 Married Life: Anne and William
- 5 Brothers: George and John
- 6 Sons
- PART THREE: THE TRANSMISSION OF FEMALE GENDER ROLES
- 7 Education
- 8 Marriage and Childbirth
- 9 The Limitations of Woman's Sphere
- I: Wife and Mother: Mary Boyles Powell JarvisII: Unnatural Daughter: Anne Murray Powell
- III: Spinster: Elizabeth Powell
- PART FOUR: CONCLUSION
- 10 A Solitary Tree Shorn of Its Branches: Old Age
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
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- I
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