Wife to widow
Subtitle: lives, laws, and politics in nineteenth-century Montreal
By: Bettina Bradbury
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780774819510
Subjects: Veuves; Married women; Femmes mariées; Conditions sociales; Histoire; Biographies; Droit; Biography; Social conditions; Widows; Legal status, laws; History
Description: "This groundbreaking work skillfully employs a sophisticated adn nuanced analysis of traditional demographic, legal, and manuscript sources to explore the lives of two generations of women as they navigated their way through the often difficult transition from wife to widow in nineteenth-century Montreal. Highly readable, Bettina Bradbury offers us a fine example of how to get at and illuminate the lives and experiences of ordinary folk."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-483) and index.

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