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Canada and the United States


Anya Jabour. Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal. (Gender Relations in the American Experience.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1998. Pp. ix, 217. $42.00.

Anya Jabour has drawn on a large cache of extant letters between members of a prominent southern couple to draw a fascinating portrait of an intense, if sometimes rocky, relationship. A generation of scholarship on the family, on gender ideals in the South, and on the ideology of domesticity as it played out in multiple venues furnishes the context for Jabour's analysis of the Wirt letters. . . .

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