| Description |
1 online resource (284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Carleton library series ; 252
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Carleton library series ; 252.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"What was it like to be a soldier's wife in Canada during the First World War? More than 80,000 Canadian women were married to men who left home to fight in the war, and its effects on their lives were transformative and often traumatic. Yet the everyday struggles of Canadian war wives, lived far from the battlefields of France, have remained in the shadows of historical memory. Anxious Days and Tearful Nights highlights how Canadian women's experiences of wartime marital separation resembled and differed from those of their European counterparts. Drawing on the letters of married couples separated by wartime service and the military service records of hundreds of Canadian soldiers, Martha Hanna reveals how couples used correspondence to maintain the routine and the affection of domestic life. She explores how women managed households and budgets, how those with children coped with the challenges of what we today would call single parenthood, and when and why some war wives chose to relocate to Britain to be nearer to their husbands. More than anything else, the life of a war wife - especially a war wife separated from her husband for years on end - was marked and marred by unrelieved psychological stress. Through this close personal lens Hanna reveals a broader picture of how war's effects persist across time and space."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Military spouses -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
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Military spouses. |
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Canada. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- Canada.
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Military spouses -- Canada -- Psychology -- History -- 20th century.
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Psychology. |
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Military spouses -- Canada -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Manners and customs. |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Canada.
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World War (1914-1918) |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hanna, Martha, 1955- Anxious days and tearful nights. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020 0228003679 9780228003670 (OCoLC)1141510030 |
| ISBN |
9780228004608 (electronic book) |
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0228004608 (electronic book) |
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9780228004592 (electronic book) |
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0228004594 (electronic book) |
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9780228003663 (hardcover) |
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0228003660 (hardcover) |
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9780228003670 (paperback) |
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0228003679 (paperback) |
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