Helpmates of Man: Middle-class Women and Gender Ideology in Nineteenth-century Ontario

Adam Brown American Anglo-Canadian Angus McLaren Anna Anne Archives attitude backwoods born bourgeois Britain British Isles Brown-Hendrie Family Papers Canada West Canadian Catherine Kough Catherine Parr Traill century Correspondence County culture daughters diary domestic duties economic emotional employment England entry farm femininity Feminism feminist Forest Home Frances Stewart Fred Watkins friends gender ideology Glasgow Hamilton Harriet History household manager husband ibid ideal of womanhood immigrant women Joy Parr labour later letters London Louisa Anderson major male Margaret Eliza Anderson Marion W Marion Watkins marriage married Mary Kough Brown Mary Kough Journal maternal middle-class middle-class immigrant middle-class women moral mother motherhood née nineteenth nineteenth-century Ontario parents pattern Peel County prestige rural Samuel Strickland Sara Jeannette Duncan servants settled sexual sister society sphere status suffrage Susanna Moodie Toronto unmarried Upper Canada urban Victorian era Victorian Ontario Watkins Family wife wives woman