{"product_id":"carolines-dilemma-a-colonial-inheritance-saga-paperback-softback-9780774865319","title":"Caroline's Dilemma; A Colonial Inheritance Saga (Paperback \/ softback) 9780774865319","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCaroline's Dilemma\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Colonial Inheritance Saga\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBettina Bradbury (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780774865319\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e362 pages, 16 b\u0026amp;w photographs and 4 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaroline Kearney faced a heartbreaking dilemma.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaroline was a thirty-one-year-old mother of six when her husband died in Melbourne, Australia in 1865. Having no legal rights herself to the sheep station in Wimmera, Victoria that her late husband owned, she had great hopes that her sons would inherit it. But that was not to be. Her husband's will, written on his deathbed, offered a reasonable annuity to support her and the children, but it came with a catch. To get that money, Caroline had to move to Ireland with her children and live in a house of her brothers-in-law's choosing. English-born, Caroline had migrated to Australia with her family when she was only seventeen. She had never even been to Ireland. Her husband and his family – unlike her – were Catholic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary book combines storytelling with a historian's detective work. Pieced together from evidence in archives, newspapers, genealogical sites, legal records and old-fashioned legwork, \u003cem\u003eCaroline's Dilemma\u003c\/em\u003e sheds new light on the workings of colonial gender relationships and family lives that spanned the nineteenth century globe. It reveals much about women's property rights, migration, settler colonialism, the Irish diaspora, and sectarian conflict. It shows how one middle-class woman and her family fought to shape their own lives within the British Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bax and Kearney family trees\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMap – location of Bax family and relatives, 1837–70\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMigration, marriage and station life: Becoming Australian colonisers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Migrations and marriage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 Broom Station, Mosquito Plains, South Australia, 1853–57\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 Lockhart Station, Western Wimmera, Victoria, 1858–65\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWidowhood: Contesting Edward's will and his brothers' influence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 Edward's death, his final wishes and religious warfare\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 Learning legal procedures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 Leaving Lockhart Station\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7 Arrivals and new challenges\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Later lives: Deaths and legacies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8 Endings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9 The boys' adult lives\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCoda\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"UBC Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52531137380632,"sku":"9780774865319","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/carolines-dilemma-a-colonial-inheritance-saga-paperback-softback-9780774865319","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}