Biography & Autobiography Women
Caroline's Dilemma
A Colonial Inheritance Saga
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2020
- Category
- Women, Women, Historical
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774865319
- Publish Date
- Sep 2020
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774865609
- Publish Date
- Sep 2020
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774865333
- Publish Date
- Sep 2020
- List Price
- $34.99
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Description
Caroline Kearney faced a heartbreaking dilemma. In 1865 she was newly widowed, thirty-one years old, and the mother of six children. She had hoped her husband would leave his sheep station in Victoria, Australia to her sons. Instead, his will required that the family move to Ireland and live in a house chosen by her brothers-in-law. Pieced together from archives, newspapers, genealogical sites, and legal records, Caroline’s Dilemma sheds new light on colonial family and gender relationships of the nineteenth century and tells the story of how one woman fought to shape her own life within the British Empire.
About the author
Bettina Bradbury is an associate professor of History and Women's Studies at York University.
