Caroline's Dilemma - Bradbury, Bettina
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Caroline Kearney's husband bequeathed her a heart-breaking dilemma. Writing his will as he lay dying in Melbourne in 1865, Edward Kearney promised his wife GBP100 a year and more to educate their sons, but only if she moved to Ireland with their six children. How did this young widow respond to such a draconian exercise of male power?

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Caroline Kearney's husband bequeathed her a heart-breaking dilemma. Writing his will as he lay dying in Melbourne in 1865, Edward Kearney promised his wife GBP100 a year and more to educate their sons, but only if she moved to Ireland with their six children. How did this young widow respond to such a draconian exercise of male power?
Autorenporträt
Bettina Bradbury is a New Zealand historian who spent most of her career at York University, Canada. She has now retired to Wellington, but spends about half her time in Australia where her children live. An award-winning historian of women, families and the law in various colonial contexts, her most recent book is Wife to Widow, Lives, Laws and Politics in Nineteenth-century Montreal, published by University of British Columbia Press in 2011.