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I Wish to Keep a Record: Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick Women Diarists and Their World

I Wish to Keep a Record: Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick Women Diarists and Their World

Campbell, Gail

Paperback

Canadian HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1487520182
ISBN13: 9781487520182
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Mar 24 2017
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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