Bettina Bradbury

Caroline's Dilemma

NewSouth Publishing Paperback, 336pp. Caroline Kearney faced a heart-breaking dilemma. A 31-year-old mother of six in Melbourne, Australia in 1865, she was newly widowed, and her husband’s will, written on his deathbed, offered a reasonable annuity to support her and the children. To get that money, she 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. What life would await her there? Bettina Bradbury tells this extraordinary story through compelling historical detective work. Offering new insight into nineteenth-century women’s property rights, migration, settler colonialism, the Irish diaspora, and sectarian conflict, Caroline’s Dilemma shows how one middle-class woman and her family fought to shape their own lives within the British Empire. Owner's Name inside. (ISBN: 9781742236605). Good.

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Keywords: History, Womens, Biography9781742236605 9781742236605