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Biography & Autobiography Women

Caroline's Dilemma

A Colonial Inheritance Saga

by (author) Bettina Bradbury

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2020
Category
Women, Historical, Women
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774865319
    Publish Date
    Sep 2020
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774865609
    Publish Date
    Sep 2020
    List Price
    $95.00
  • 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.

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