Courtship Love and Marriage in Nineteenth Century English Canada Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
• File Size : 38,5 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 1990

Argues that freedom to love, court, and marry in nineteenth-century English Canada was constrained by an intricate social, institutional, and familial framework which greatly influenced the behavior of young couples

• Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
• File Size : 45,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 1990

Courtship, love, and marriage are seen today as very private affairs, and historians have generally concluded that after the late eighteenth century young people began to enjoy great autonomy in

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 47,9 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 2024

This book examines the popular publications of the Victorian period, illuminating the intricacies of courtship and marriage from the differing perspectives of the working, middle, and upper classes. In contemporary

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• File Size : 33,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 1994

"In these two volumes, which replace the Reader's Guide to Canadian History, experts provide a select and critical guide to historical writing about pre- and post-Confederation Canada, with an emphasis

• Publisher : ANU E Press
• File Size : 52,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 2006

This volume brings together historians of imperialism and race, travel and modernity, Islam and India, the Pacific and the Atlantic to show how a 'transnational' approach to history offers fresh

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 44,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 1990

George Stephen Jones's diary chronicles his romance with Honorine Tanswell. The two youths fell in love in the fall of 1845 and the diary traces in touching detail the course of

• Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
• File Size : 49,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 February 2015

Drawing on historical records of women’s varying experiences as litigants, accused criminals, or witnesses, this book offers critical insight into women’s legal status in nineteenth-century Canada. In an

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• File Size : 53,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2003

Although unusual in his driving ambitions and his consuming need to accumulate a fortune, Harrison remained in most respects thoroughly conventional and Victorian, and his diary offers unrivalled insights into

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• File Size : 50,6 Mb
• Release Date : 17 March 2007

Working Families takes the reader onto the streets of Montreal and into the homes of its working-class families during the years that it became a major, industrial city. Between the 1860

• Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
• File Size : 23,7 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 1994

During this period the realms of the public and the private became increasingly separated, with increasingly separate roles for men and women. Changes in cultural values concerning gender, ideals about