Family Life and Sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780-1870: A View from Diaries and Family Correspondence

ISBN-13: 9780773524453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 384 str.

Francoise Noel

Opis

Drawing on diaries and letters exchanged between family members Francoise Noel considers the nature of family, the couple during courtship and after marriage, parents and children in childhood and after the children leave home, and the social life of the family in terms of both leisure time and entertainment and the mutual assistance provided by social networks of kin, neighbours and friends. She notes that courtship usually took place within the social network of interactions with kin and neighbours and shows that family life was located in a broad social space that included people of various ages. By examining the correspondence and diaries of francophone and anglophone middle-class families of various faiths, No l presents touching stories of family life in the Canadas in the early 19th century.