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Ornamental non-entities?
— older women, historians and the writings of Ellen Osler and Wilmot Cumberland | | Author(s) | Edgar-Andre Montigny |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 17, part 2, March 1997 |
| Pages | pp 191-207 |
| Keywords | Older women ; Social roles ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Biographies ; Histories ; North America ; Canada ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Images of the role of older women in Canada and north-eastern USA in the 19th century have generally been based on 19th century guides and manuals, and have tended to portray them as unfulfilled in subjugated, passive domestic roles. This article suggests that such assumptions need to be re-assessed. An examination of diaries and other biographical material describing the everyday lives of middle class women - such as Ellen Osler and Wilmot Cumberland - provides evidence of active and powerful roles, with positive views of later life. It is argued that these examples are not exceptional, but are representative of a wider 19th century pattern of older women undertaking satisfying and vital social roles within their family and community networks. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970804004 A |
| Classmark | BD: TM5: TOB: 67: 6A: 7RA: 7S: 7T |
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