Life After Death: Widows in Pennsylvania, 1750-1850 by Lisa Wilson, Emily Wilson

Life After Death: Widows in Pennsylvania, 1750-1850

American Civilization

Lisa Wilson, Emily Wilson

215 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction gender history medium-paced
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In early nineteenth-century Pennsylvania widows comprised 10 per cent of the female population. Most never remarried. This title traces the experiences of widows in a society that imposed an ideology of proper female behavior. It challenges the co...

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