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Wife to Widow: Lives, Law and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal
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Wife to Widow: Lives, Law and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal
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| Abstract |
The author traces the lives of twenty Catholic, Protestant and Jewish women over two generations who married and were widowed in Montreal before and after the Patriote uprisings in 1837 and 1838. She explores the diverse ways that age, gender, class, wealth, custom and religion shaped the tasks that widows took on once their husband's funerals were over, and how health, age, wealth, class, religion and connectedness to family, kin, faith and fellow citizens shaped their choices about where they would live as they aged, how they would be cared for in final illnesses, how they would distribute any property they owned, and how their lives would be acknowledged in obituaries.
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Vancouver, BC
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University of British Columbia Press
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2011
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| # of Pages |
xvi-502p.
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en
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978-0-7748-1952-7
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| Citation |
Bradbury, Bettina. Wife to Widow: Lives, Law and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2011.
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