| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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Canada and the United States

Kristina Marie Guiguet. The Ideal World of Mrs. Widder's Soirée Musicale: Social Identity and Musical Life in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. (Mercury Series, Cultural Studies Paper, number 77.) Gatineau, QC: Canadian Museum of Civilization. 2004. Pp. xvi, 154. $24.95.

This book is a fascinating little gem of a monograph, but it requires some additional polishing to bring out its full brilliance. Kristina Marie Guiget's engaging microhistory examines a single historical document: a printed program for an 1844 musical evening held in the spacious drawing room of "Lyndhurst," the high society home of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Widder of Toronto, Ontario. Guiget, drawing on her twenty-five-year international career as a singer, mines this document to great effect. Using it as her departure point, she proceeds to a fascinating examination of the interconnections of politics, social values, gender, and class expressed through music in the nineteenth century.

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