Gender and Gentility on the Lower Canadian Frontier: Lucy Peel’s Journal, 1833-36

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Title
Gender and Gentility on the Lower Canadian Frontier: Lucy Peel’s Journal, 1833-36
Abstract
The author examines the gender and class values reflected in the diary of a young British immigrant who lived with her husband near Sherbrooke in the 1830s. He points out that contrary to the claims of studies dealing with the British gentry in Upper Canada, the lives of the local elite described in Lucy Peel's journal do not conform to the rigid separation of a female private world and a male public one. The author argues that men took an active part in the domestic sphere, and women played a central role in maintaining social boundaries.
Publication
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société historique du Canada
Volume
New Series Vol. 10
Pages
59-79
Date
1999
Language
en
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Notes

See the author's book: Love Strong As Death: Lucy Peel’s Canadian Journal, 1833-1836. Waterloo,ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001. ix-229p.

Citation
Little, J. I. “Gender and Gentility on the Lower Canadian Frontier: Lucy Peel’s Journal, 1833-36.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société historique du Canada New Series Vol. 10 (1999): 59–79. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/jcha/1999-v10-n1-jcha1006/030508ar.pdf.
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