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Author Hanna, Martha, 1955- author.

Title Anxious days and tearful nights : Canadian war wives during the Great War / Martha Hanna
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series Carleton library series ; 252
Carleton library series ; 252.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on September 03, 2020)
Subject Military spouses -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- Canada
Military spouses -- Canada -- Psychology -- History -- 20th century
Military spouses -- Canada -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
World War, 1914-1918 -- Canada
HISTORY -- Military -- Canada.
Military spouses
Military spouses -- Psychology
Women
Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780228004608
0228004608
9780228004592
0228004594