Wives and Mothers, School Mistresses and Scullery Maids: Working Women in Upper Canada, 1790-1840 by Elizabeth Jane Errington

Wives and Mothers, School Mistresses and Scullery Maids: Working Women in Upper Canada, 1790-1840

Elizabeth Jane Errington

400 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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Errington explores evidence of a distinctive women's culture and shows that the work women did constituted a common experience shared by Upper Canadian women. Most of them not only experienced the uncertainties of marriage and the potential danger...

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