Family Life and Sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780-1870: A View from Diaries and Family CorrespondenceDrawing on diaries and letters exchanged between family members Françoise Noël 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, Noël presents touching stories of family life in the Canadas in the early nineteenth century. |
Contents
Courtship and Engagement | 19 |
Marriage | 60 |
Housekeeping and Household Production | 82 |
Married Life | 102 |
Introduction | 131 |
Childhood | 148 |
Childhood Accidents Illness and Death | 165 |
Introduction | 191 |
ΙΟ Family Sociability | 211 |
Mutual Assistance and Reciprocity | 246 |
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