Maritime Canadian interior decoration was transformed between 1830 and 1860 from the austere to the spirited by middle-class women who embraced nature and brought it indoors. Women enlivened the interior with specimens of nature, handmade fancywork and living organisms. By imbuing nature with religious significance and cultural meaning, women were able to rationalize their interest in the outdoors and give purpose to their endeavours. They found inspiration in scientific writings and religious works, including imported journals and ladies' magazines. As women embraced responsibility for interior decoration within their "separate sphere" of the home, they cultivated a comfortable retreat from the vicissitudes of a competitive masculine busin...
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This paper examines the gender and class values reflected in the journal of a young English woman wh...
Studying three embroidered quilts made by British women who lived in southeastern Ontario during the...
The material culture of domestic life has habitually been gendered as feminine. The traditional narr...
Idealized nature entered the homes of middle and upper class Americans in the mid nineteenth century...
This paper defines, describes, and to some extent analyses the traditional Newfoundland "time," an i...
This paper deals with the evolution of the Newfoundland fireplace and with the earliest forms of coo...
The author quickly traces the history of the Hutterites' forced wandering through Eastern Europe and...
As Canadian Church historians have traditionally portrayed men as the movers and...
Elizabeth Simcoe and Elizabeth Hale's drawings and watercolours are primarily esteemed as early desc...
As newcomers to Montreal, young single, working women were often subject to low salaries, poor housi...
This paper demonstrates the processes of spatial production achieved through the setup of a home shr...
Cet article explore le rôle clé qu’ont joué les femmes dans la construction de réseaux sociaux catho...
The ideology of home—essentially the notion that "a woman's place is in the home"— tends to shape t...
Cet article explore les thèmes dominants et les tendances dans la litérature historique sur les femm...
L’objet de cet article est de cerner, à travers le temps et l’espace, les moyens par lesquels les Pr...
This paper examines the gender and class values reflected in the journal of a young English woman wh...
Studying three embroidered quilts made by British women who lived in southeastern Ontario during the...
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