Gail Campbell

I Wish to Keep a Record

Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick Women Diarists and Their World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

I wish to keep a record is the first book to focus exclusively on the life-course experiences of nineteenth-century New Brunswick women. Gail G. Campbell offers an interpretive scholarly analysis of 28 women’s diaries while enticing readers to listen to the voices of the diarists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781487500290
• ISBN-10: 1487500297
• Artikelnr.: 45057688

Autorenporträt

Gail G. Campbell is Professor Emerita of History at the University of New Brunswick.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Diarists
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Diarists
Chapter 2: Reading 19th Century Diaries: the 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 Home
Chapter 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
Bibliography