“When men were the chief family earners and women were dependent…the effects of widowhood could be disastrous, and widows had to employ a range of strategies to support themselves and their families.”1
“When men were the chief family earners and women were dependent…the effects of widowhood could be disastrous, and widows had to employ a range of strategies to support themselves and their families.”While her brothers-in-law sold her mother’s house, Catherine moved her own meagre belongings into the Blay home.
Her husband returned from wherever it was he disappeared to after coming and going for three years, and built a wattle and daub shack on his eighty acres in New Norfolk. Catherine refused to live in it. James didn’t argue, she knew he preferred her out of his way.
Elizabeth Cullen
