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| Preface | ||
| 1 | Prologue: The Howling Wilderness and Fruitful Fields | 3 |
| Pt. 1 | "Around the Domestic Hearth": Wives and Mothers and Reproduction in Upper Canada | 25 |
| 2 | "The Most Important Crisis": Marriage in Upper Canada | 28 |
| 3 | "A Fountain of Life to Her Children": Mothering in Upper Canada | 53 |
| Pt. 2 | "Woman is a Bit of a Slave in this Country": The Housewife and Her Help | 81 |
| 4 | "Prime Minister of the House": Colonial Housekeepers | 85 |
| 5 | "The Ordinary Sort of Canadian Servant": Helping and the Neighbour's Girl | 107 |
| Pt. 3 | "A Sense of Decorum" and "Service": The World of the Colonial Aristocracy | 131 |
| 6 | "No End to the Wants": Living and Working in the "Big" House | 136 |
| 7 | "Social Obligations" and "Angelic Ministrations": Society Matrons and Crusading Ladies | 159 |
| Pt. 4 | Beyond the Bounds of Domesticity: Surrogate Husbands and Independent Business Women | 185 |
| 8 | "Requesting Their Patronage": Milliners, Mantuamakers, and Wage-earning Women in Upper Canada | 189 |
| 9 | Ladies' Academies and "Seminaries of Respectability": Training "Good" Women of Upper Canada | 209 |
| 10 | Epilogue | 233 |
| Appendix One Patterns of Women's Part-time Employment | 243 | |
| Appendix Two Women in the Needle Trades in York, Upper Canada | 245 | |
| Notes | 249 | |
| Bibliography | 357 | |
| Index | 367 |
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