"I wish to keep a record" : nineteenth-century New Brunswick women diarists and their world / Gail G. Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Gail Grace, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diarists--New Brunswick--History--19th century.

Diarists.

Diarists--New Brunswick--Biography.

Diarists--New Brunswick--Social conditions--19th century.

Diarists--New Brunswick--Social life and customs--19th century.

Women--New Brunswick--Social conditions--19th century.

Women.

Women immigrants--New Brunswick--Social conditions--19th century.

Women immigrants.

Social conditions.

Manners and customs.

History.

New Brunswick.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 432 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Biographical information for the diarists

Map: the counties of New Brunswick

Introduction

The diarists

Reading nineteenth-century diaries: a historian's perspective

The life course in demographic context: women's experience

Three generations: women of their time and place

From innocent flirtation to formal courtship

The world of the family

Households of independent women

Sociability and social networks

Schooling and scholars

A sustaining faith

Work in the home

Beyond the bounds of family: paid work

Politics and social reform

A cosmopolitan outlook

In the midst of life

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-415) and index.

ISBN:

9781487500290

1487500297

9781487520182

1487520182

OCLC:

984982460