"I wish to keep a record" : nineteenth-century New Brunswick women diarists and their world /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Campbell, Gail Grace, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Temas:
1800-1899
Diarists > New Brunswick > History > 19th century.
Diarists > New Brunswick > Biography.
Diarists > New Brunswick > Social conditions > 19th century.
Diarists > New Brunswick > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Women > New Brunswick > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women immigrants > New Brunswick > Social conditions > 19th century.
Canadian diaries (English) > New Brunswick > History and criticism.
Canadian diaries (English) > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women authors, Canadian (English) > New Brunswick > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women authors, Canadian (English) > New Brunswick > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Femmes > Nouveau-Brunswick > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Immigrantes > Nouveau-Brunswick > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HISTORY / Canada / General
Diarists
Women immigrants > Social conditions
Women > Social conditions
New Brunswick
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Biographical Information for the Diarists; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Diarists; Chapter 2: Reading Nineteenth-Century Diaries: A Historian's Perspective; Chapter 3: The Life Course in Demographic Context: Women's Experience; Chapter 4: Three Generations: Women of Their Time and Place; Chapter 5: From Innocent Flirtation to Formal Courtship; Chapter 6: The World of the Family; Chapter 7: Households of Independent Women; Chapter 8: Sociability and Social Networks; Chapter 9: Schooling and Scholars; Chapter 10: A Sustaining Faith
  • Chapter 11: Work in the HomeChapter 12: Beyond the Bounds of Family: Paid Work; Chapter 13: Politics and Social Reform; Chapter 14: A Cosmopolitan Outlook; Chapter 15: In the Midst of Life; Conclusion; Afterword; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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