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Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island

Imperial Dreams and the Defence of Property

by (author) Rusty Bittermann & Margaret McCallum

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2008
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773533899
    Publish Date
    Jun 2008
    List Price
    $110.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773534247
    Publish Date
    Jun 2008
    List Price
    $34.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773577855
    Publish Date
    Jun 2008
    List Price
    $95.00

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The 1767 decision to divide Prince Edward Island among elite British grantees shaped Island history for more than a century. Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island examines this history through the lives of four women who, due to the vagaries of family formation and inheritance, became Island landlords. As absentee owners of large estates, each of the four women faced challenges from those who wanted land redistributed in freehold lots to actual settlers. Their individual management strategies were determined in part by class standing and marital status, as well as individual eccentricities and prejudices. Drawing on family and official papers, Rusty Bittermann and Margaret McCallum provide engaging portraits of these women - orphaned heiress, prudent wife and property manager, countess estranged from her husband, independent spinster - as they negotiated relations of power and privilege in a domain dominated by men. Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island is a compelling narrative that provides a unique perspective on landed society in England in the age of industrialization and reform, making an important contribution to trans-Atlantic, British social, legal, and women's histories.

About the authors

Rusty Bittermann is a professor in the Department of History at St Thomas University and author of Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island: From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement, and co-author (with Margaret McCallum) of Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island: Imperial Dreams and the Defence of Property.

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Margaret McCallum teaches in the Faculty of Law at the University of New Brunswick

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