Family life and sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780-1870

Family Life and Sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780-1870 is a fascinating look into the daily lives of middle-class Canadians in the nineteenth century. Using diaries and the letters exchanged between family members, François Noël illuminates the lives of couples as they move from courtship to life after marriage, including the kinds of work wives engaged in, telling glimpses of miscarriages, childbirth, and infancy, and rich descriptions of sickness, death,... >Voir plus