Bradbury, Bettina. <br/><br/>
Wife to Widow :  Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (521 pages) 
<br/><br/>Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Marriage, Identity, and the Law -- 1: Marriage Metropole -- 2: Companionate Patriarchies -- 3: Marriage Trajectories -- 4: "Dower This Barbarous Law" -- 5: Imagining Widowhood and Death -- Part 2: Individual Itineraries of  Widowhood -- 6: Diverse Demographies -- 7: In the Shadow of  Their Husbands -- 8: "Within a Year and a Day" -- 9: Widows'  Votes -- 10: Widow to Mother Superior -- 11: Patchworks of the Possible -- 12: Final Years, Final Wishes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780774819534 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Married women -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Social conditions -- 19th century.<br/>Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century.<br/>Widows -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Social conditions -- 19th century.<br/>Widows -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century.<br/>Montréal (Québec) -- History -- 19th century.<br/>Montréal (Québec) -- Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1453 -- .B73 2011eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.872