An unrecognized contribution : women and their work in 19th-century Toronto / Elizabeth Gillan Muir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muir, Elizabeth Gillan, 1934- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--Ontario--Toronto--History--19th century.

Women.

Women employees--Ontario--Toronto--History--19th century.

Women employees.

Women--Ontario--Toronto--Biography.

Women employees--Ontario--Toronto--Biography.

Women--Ontario--Toronto--History--19th century.

Women--Ontario--Toronto--Social conditions--19th century.

Women--Ontario--Toronto--Economic conditions--19th century.

Ontario--Toronto.

Genre:

Biographies.

collective biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2022.

Summary:

Women in nineteenth-century Toronto owned factories and stores, were involved in professions and vocations, and were not housebound uneducated women as historians generally suggest. Elizabeth Gillan Muir shows how wide-ranging women's activities were -- from owning taverns, schools, and market gardens to working as doctors, musicians, and butchers.

"Celebrating women's contributions to early Toronto. Women in nineteenth-century Toronto were integral to the life of the growing city. They contributed to the city's commerce and were owners of stores, factories, brickworks, market gardens, hotels, and taverns; as musicians, painters, and writers, they were a large part of the city's cultural life; and as nurses, doctors, religious workers, and activists they strengthened the city's safety net for those who were most in need. Their stories are told in this wide-ranging collection of biographies, the result of Muir's search of early street directories, the first city histories, personal diaries, and other documents, highlighting scores of women and the work they undertook during a period of great change for the city."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

1 Toronto: A "New World" City

2 Women in Nineteenth-Century Toronto: Their Work and Station

3 Early Settlers

4 Adventurers

5 The De Grassi Girls and Other Spies

6 Women and Religion

7 Proprietors of Boarding Houses, Taverns, and Hotels

8 Visual, Literary, and Performing Artists

9 Professionals

10 Reforming Philanthropists

11 Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Appendix A: Selected Toronto and Area Streets Commemorating or Connected to Nineteenth-Century Women

Appendix B: Historical Plaques in Toronto and Area Commemorating or Connected to Nineteenth-Century Women

Notes

Bibliography

Image Credits

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Muir, Elizabeth Gillan An Unrecognized Contribution

ISBN:

9781459750043

9781459750036

OCLC:

1348489741