Daughters, Wives, and Widows
Author | : Joan Larsen Klein |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Joan Larsen Klein |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Mavis E. Mate |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780851155340 |
Did the expanding economic life of England after the Black Death improve the lot of women, as is commonly thought? This study argues not. It has long been thought that the post Black Death period offered unparallelled opportunities for women. However, through a careful consideration of economic and legal changes affecting women of all social classes and conditions, the author shows that this was not the case, taking issue with orthodox opinion. She argues that marriage at a late age was not customary for women, and that the ability of wives to supplement their income with intermittent paid labour (at harvest time, for example) was not so great as has been supposed: rather, most married women spent more time on unpaid agricultural labour on their own land than their peers had done in the pre-plague economy. ProfessorMate also demonstrates that there is little evidence to support the current belief that widowhood was the period in a woman's life when she enjoyed most power, freedom, and independence; moreover, legal changes were a mixed blessing for women, leaving some widows with a larger portion and a more secure title to land, but totally depriving others. Throughout, the book pays much attention to class as well as gender, showing how many things were determined byit, from what a woman wore or ate to the age at which she married, her power within the household, and even her vulnerability to rape. The late MAVIS E. MATE was Professor of History Emerita, University of Oregon.
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Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Joan Larsen Klein |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Sue Appleby |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2024-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1805148893 |
“Cornwall has for centuries been the source of migrants to all parts of the world. This has generated a broad literature on Cornish emigration and the Cornish abroad, much of it concentrated on the better-known destinations of the USA, Australia, and South Africa; related to the international mining industry of the 19th century; and dominated by men and their stories. Appleby breaks the mould by examining the lives of female indentured servants, wives of mariners, miners, and missionaries, and ‘ladies of quality’, who, for many different reasons, spent time in the Caribbean. There has been a gathering tide of research and literature into the lives of Cornish women in recent years but, so far, less work has concentrated on the women of the Cornish diaspora, so this new book is a very welcome addition to that literature.” Dr Lesley Trotter, Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter. Wives - Mothers - Daughters - Widows is the first book to examine the lives of Cornish women who left their homes to spend time in the Caribbean colonies.
Author | : Joanna Martin |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2004-07-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781852852719 |
Told through the stories, journals and personal letters of the women of the powerful Fox family, Wives and Daughters is a window into the daily lives and experiences of women of eighteenth-century aristocratic society and the country houses that symbolized the power and taste of eighteenth-century Britain. Combining personality with historical setting and detail, Joanna Martin traces the lives of fifteen individual women in their four country houses through several generations, in society and at home. Taking an intimate and personal look at courtship, marriage, childbirth, education, houses and gardens, reading, hobbies, travel and health, this book is an engrossing account of woman's lives in this fascinating time.
Author | : Bruce W. Winter |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802849717 |
During the late Republic and early Empire, the new woman' made her appearance. This was a wife or widow of means who took part in life outside the walls of her house, including wider society, business and extra-marital affairs.
Author | : Vivian Bruce Conger |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2009-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814716741 |
Explores how widows were portrayed in early American culture, and how widows themselves created identities in response to their unique roles. Utilizing widows' wills, prescriptive literature, court appearances, newspaper advertisements and letters, the author analyzes how widows in colonial Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Maryland navigated their domestic, legal, economic, and community roles in early American society.
Author | : Christian White |
Publisher | : Minotaur Books |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2020-01-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250194385 |
The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of The Nowhere Child, Christian White. Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband’s secret life; and Abby, an island local whose world is turned upside when she’s forced to confront the evidence of her husband’s guilt. But nothing on this island is quite as it seems, and only when these women come together can they discover the whole story about the men in their lives. Brilliant and beguiling, The Wife and The Widow takes you to a cliff edge and asks the question: how well do we really know the people we love?
Author | : Premacanda |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9780195653205 |
The Stories Present A Wide Variety Of Feminine Portraits-Mothers, Daughters, Wives, Widows And Prostitutes-Both Realistic And Idealized, Sometimes Tragic, Sometimes Tinged With Satire, But Always Compassionate.