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'What did it mean to be widowed in Australia in the 1860s? Bettina Bradbury explores this question through a close examination of the extraordinary plight of English-born Protestant Caroline Bax. Caroline, at age nineteen, married Irish-born Catholic Edward Kearney in 1853. Kearney, aged thirty-four at the time of the marriage, was an ambitious man, hoping to make good on a sheep station in South Australia. Clearly a hard-working wife and children would help supply the labour to back his grand plans. Bradbury’s close examination of one family story provides a model of how to highlight the larger structures that governed women’s lives, across continents, in the nineteenth century.' (Introduction)
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