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The Fireside Kingdom: A Mid-Nineteenth Century Anglican Perspective on Marriage and Parenthood
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The Fireside Kingdom: A Mid-Nineteenth Century Anglican Perspective on Marriage and Parenthood
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The contribution of the Reverend James Reid (1780-1865), an Anglican clergyman in the Eastern Townships village of St. Armand East, to the "cult of domesticity" that was more prevalent on the New England side of the border than in Canada. Reid published sixty-four essays between January 1837 and April 1838 on religion and the family in the Frelighsburg-based Missiskuoi Standard newspaper. The essays stressed the importance of public worship and regular church attendance and parental guidance and love, with a primary focus on family prayer at the evening fireside. The essays were on such topics as: the need to select a marriage partner with care, mutual forbearance, avoiding contention in marriage, setting a good example to children in their upbringing, family prayer, and on keeping the Sabbath and the decline of communities that break it.
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Households of Faith: Family, Gender and Community in Canada, 1760-1969
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Montreal and Kingston
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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2002
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77-100
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en
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Little, J. I. “The Fireside Kingdom: A Mid-Nineteenth Century Anglican Perspective on Marriage and Parenthood.” In Households of Faith: Family, Gender and Community in Canada, 1760-1969, edited by Nancy Christie, 77–100. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002.
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