Wives and mothers, schoolmistresses and scullery maids [electronic resource] : working women in Upper Canada, 1790-1840 / Elizabeth Jane Errington.
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Maps and Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Prologue: The Howling Wilderness and Fruitful Fields
- PART ONE: AROUND THE DOMESTIC HEARTH: WIVES AND MOTHERS AND REPRODUCTION IN UPPER CANADA
- 2 The Most Important Crisis: Marriage in Upper Canada
- 3 A Fountain of Life to Her Children: Mothering in Upper Canada
- PART TWO: WOMAN IS A BIT OF A SLAVE IN THIS COUNTRY: THE HOUSEWIFE AND HER HELP
- 4 Prime Minister of the House: Colonial Housekeepers
- 5 The Ordinary Sort of Canadian Servant: Helping and the Neighbour's Girl.
- PART THREE: A SENSE OF DECORUM AND SERVICE: THE WORLD OF THE COLONIAL ARISTOCRACY6 No End to the Wants: Living and Working in the Big House
- 7 Social Obligations and Angelic Ministrations: Society Matrons and Crusading Ladies
- PART FOUR: BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF DOMESTICITY: SURROGATE HUSBANDS AND INDEPENDENT BUSINESS WOMEN
- 8 Requesting Their Patronage: Milliners, Mantuamakers, and Wage-earning Women in Upper Canada
- 9 Ladies' Academies and Seminaries of Respectability: Training Good Women of Upper Canada
- 10 Epilogue.
- Appendix One: Patterns of Women's Part-time EmploymentAppendix Two: Women in the Needle Trades in York, Upper Canada
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
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- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
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- K
- L
- M
- N
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- Y.