"I Wish to Keep a Record"

Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick Women Diarists and Their World

AvGail Campbell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Nineteenth-century New Brunswick society was dominated by white, Protestant, Anglophone men. Yet, during this time of state formation in Canada, women increasingly helped to define and shape a provincial outlook.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. Their diaries show women constructing themselves as individuals, assuming their essential place in building families and communities, and shaping their society by directing its outward gaze and envisioning its future. Campbell’s lively analysis calls on scholars to distinguish between immigrant and native-born women　and to move beyond present-day conceptions of such women’s world. This unique study provides a framework for developing an understanding of women's worlds in nineteenth-century North America.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-03-24
Mått:152 x 229 x 38 mm
Vikt:780 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:448
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487500290
Utmärkelser:Winner of Canadian Committee on Women’s History Book prize 2018 (Canada)

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

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‘This is a volume that is a must read for those who are engaged in the history of New Brunswick and for those who themselves are trying to tease out the stories of women in the nineteenth- century settler world of North America.’- Jane Errington (Acadiensis, August 2017) "These diaries present an engaging sense of history from below, as lived and felt by its participants…Consistently well documented, this study nicely positions the lives of these New Brunswick women within the larger context of nineteenth-century women’s history."- Carole Gerson (The Canadian Historical Review Vol 99:2: June 2018)

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsPrefaceList of DiaristsIntroduction Chapter 1: The DiaristsChapter 2: Reading 19th Century Diaries: the Historian’s PerspectiveChapter 3: The Life Course in Demographic Context: Women’s ExperienceChapter 4: Three Generations: Women of their Time and Place Chapter 5: From Innocent Flirtation to Formal CourtshipChapter 6: The World of the FamilyChapter 7: Households of Independent WomenChapter 8: Sociability and Social NetworksChapter 9: Schooling and ScholarsChapter 10: A Sustaining FaithChapter 11: Work in the HomeChapter 12: Beyond the Bounds of Family: Paid WorkChapter 13: Politics and Social ReformChapter 14: A Cosmopolitan OutlookChapter 15: In the Midst of Life ConclusionAfterwordAppendixBibliography