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The diversity of women’s lives as wives then as widows negotiating the law, patriarchy, family relationships, and the economy in 19th-century Montreal come alive in this first major study of widows in Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Marriage, Identity, and the Law

1 Marriage Metropole: Mobility and Marriage in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal

2 Companionate Patriarchies: Money Matters and Marriage

3 Marriage Trajectories: Class, Choices, and Chance

4 “Dower This Barbarous Law”: Debating Marriage and Widows’ Rights

5 Imagining Widowhood and Death: Marriage Contracts, Wills, and Funeral Provisions

Part 2: Individual Itineraries of Widowhood

6 Diverse Demographies: Death, Widowhood, and Remarriage

7 In the Shadow of Their Husbands: The First Days of Widowhood

8 “Within a Year and a Day”: The First Year of Widowhood

9 Widows’ Votes: Marguerite Paris, Émilie Tavernier, Sarah Harrison, and the Montreal By-Elections of 1832

10 Widow to Mother Superior: Émilie Tavernier Gamelin and Catholic Institution Building

11 Patchworks of the Possible: Widows’ Wealth, Work, and Children

12 Final Years, Final Wishes: Care, Connections, Old Age and Death

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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      Publisher University of British Columbia Press
      Published 15 June 2011
      ISBN-13 9780774819510
      978-0774819510
      ISBN-10 0774819510
      Also in:
      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The diversity of women’s lives as wives then as widows negotiating the law, patriarchy, family relationships, and the economy in 19th-century Montreal come alive in this first major study of widows in Canada.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Part 1: Marriage, Identity, and the Law

      1 Marriage Metropole: Mobility and Marriage in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal

      2 Companionate Patriarchies: Money Matters and Marriage

      3 Marriage Trajectories: Class, Choices, and Chance

      4 “Dower This Barbarous Law”: Debating Marriage and Widows’ Rights

      5 Imagining Widowhood and Death: Marriage Contracts, Wills, and Funeral Provisions

      Part 2: Individual Itineraries of Widowhood

      6 Diverse Demographies: Death, Widowhood, and Remarriage

      7 In the Shadow of Their Husbands: The First Days of Widowhood

      8 “Within a Year and a Day”: The First Year of Widowhood

      9 Widows’ Votes: Marguerite Paris, Émilie Tavernier, Sarah Harrison, and the Montreal By-Elections of 1832

      10 Widow to Mother Superior: Émilie Tavernier Gamelin and Catholic Institution Building

      11 Patchworks of the Possible: Widows’ Wealth, Work, and Children

      12 Final Years, Final Wishes: Care, Connections, Old Age and Death

      Conclusion

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Index

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