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Foreword Donald R. Hickey ix
Introduction xi
Prologue: "A terrible commotion.": War Comes to North America 2
1 "The faithful wife, without debate.": The Woman s World in 1812 26
Picture Essay: What to Wear? Women's Clothing 58
2 "Maidens here are sweetly singing.": Love, Courtship, Marriage and Dangerous Liaisons 64
3 "For their work continueth.": Gainful Employment 102
4 "A stirring and restless life.": Army Officers' Ladies 130
5 "Their fate unpitied, and unheard their name.": Soldiers' Wives and Women 154
6 "The lass that loves a sailor.": Naval Wives and Women 178
7 "The sensations of a wife, and mother in times such as these.": Binding Ties and Keeping in Touch 196
8 "The windings of the mazy dance.": High Society 218
9 "Vicissitudes and commotions!": Women and the War in the Northern Theatre 256
10 "The anguish of such hours.": The Atlantic and Gulf Coasts 298
11 "Boldly I did fight… although I'm but a wench.": Women as Combatants, Agents and Prisoners of War 326
12 "Worthless is the laurel steeped in female tears.": Privations, Poverty, Bereavement and Crime 342
13 "The blessings of peace.": The End of the War and Afterwards 376
Epilogue: "A chaplet of unfading laurels.": The Fates of Women and Men 396
Chronology: Major Events of the War of 1812 415
Appendices
A "Peach trees of a very fine kind": Extracts From the Garden Book of Catherine Claus 418
B "Dry whortleberries scattered in, will make it better.": Recipes from the Time of the War of 1812 423
C Joseph Willcocks: The Inner Man: The Diet of a Prosperous North American Family in the Early Nineteenth Century 432
D "Every virtue and every excellence.": Extracts from A Father's Legacy to His Daughters by Dr. John Gregory 435
Endnotes 439
Bibliography 475
Index 487
Maps
Eastern North America in 1812 19
The Northern Theatre 260
The Old Northwest 264
The Niagara Frontier 271
The Northeast 301
The Chesapeake Bay 304
New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico 322
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