Bettina Bradbury

Bettina Bradbury is a feminist historian specializing in family history. She has been a member of the Montreal History Group since the 1980s.  Recipient of several awards, she is the author of Caroline’s Dilemma. A colonial inheritance saga (New South, Australia, 2019; UBC Press, 2020), Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011) and Working Families. Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal. (1993, 1996, 2007, and translated by Christiane Teasdale – Familles ouvrières à Montréal.  Âge, genre et survie quotidienne pendant la phase d’industrialisation (Montreal: Boréal, 1995). Professor emeritus at York University, she currently lives in New Zealand where she continues to explore issues related to marriage, succession and property in the white colonies of the British Empire in the 19th century and to work in her garden.

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