During this period the realms of the public and the private became increasingly separated, with increasingly separate roles for men and women. Changes in cultural values concerning gender, ideals about family relationships, and ideas of the appropriate role women brought uncertainty, confusion, and contradiction. Anne Powell's life embodied this shift in values and provides an example of how they were carried from the old world to the new.
A Life of Propriety makes an innovative contribution to the literature on women in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and will also be of interest to scholars in women's studies, and early Ontario and Canadian history, as well as to the general reader.
"Sets the story of the Powell family in the context of a growing international literature on gender and family relations in an important period of change ... a captivating story and a great read." Alison Prentice, Department of History and Philosophy, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.3/54102/092
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780773564657
- LCCN
- F1059.5.T6853
- LCCN Item number
- P686 1994eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (x, 327 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00200868 (CaBNVSL)slc00200868 (CaBNVSL) (CaBNVSL)gtp00523324 (OCoLC)144080079 (CaOOCEL)400698
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Illustrations 12
- Prologue 26
- Introduction 31
- PART ONE: LEARNING AND LIVING THE LESSONS OF PROPRIETY 44
- 1 Early Years at Boston 46
- 2 The Founding of a Family, 1775–1800 62
- 3 Establishing Social Status: Anne Powell and York Society 84
- PART TWO: THE INTERSECTIONS OF MALE AND FEMALE GENDER ROLES 112
- 4 Married Life: Anne and William 114
- 5 Brothers: George and John 136
- 6 Sons 151
- PART THREE: THE TRANSMISSION OF FEMALE GENDER ROLES 176
- 7 Education 178
- 8 Marriage and Childbirth 195
- 9 The Limitations of "Woman's Sphere" 213
- I: Wife and Mother: Mary Boyles Powell Jarvis 215
- II: "Unnatural Daughter": Anne Murray Powell 229
- III: Spinster: Elizabeth Powell 252
- PART FOUR: CONCLUSION 264
- 10 "A Solitary Tree Shorn of Its Branches": Old Age 266
- Notes 284
- Bibliography 332
- Index 346
- A 346
- B 346
- C 346
- D 347
- E 347
- F 347
- G 347
- H 347
- I 347
- J 347
- K 348
- L 348
- M 348
- N 349
- P 349
- Q 350
- R 350
- S 350
- T 350
- V 350
- W 350
- Y 350
