TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bradbury,Bettina
TI  - Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal
SN  - 9780774819534
AV  - HQ1453 -- .B73 2011eb 
U1  - 306.872 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Vancouver
PB  - University of British Columbia Press
KW  - Married women -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Social conditions -- 19th century
KW  - Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Widows -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Social conditions -- 19th century
KW  - Widows -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Montréal (Québec) -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Montréal (Québec) -- Biography
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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