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Join Martha Hanna, author of Anxious Days and Tearful Nights: Canadian War Wives during the Great War, for a lecture on her book as part of the Laurier Military History Webinar Series. Hosted by the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Martha Hanna is professor in the Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder.
What was it like to be a soldier's wife in Canada during the First World War? More than 80,000 Canadian women were married to men who left home to fight in the war, and its effects on their lives were transformative and often traumatic. Yet the everyday struggles of Canadian war wives, lived far from the battlefields of France, have remained in the shadows of historical memory. Anxious Days and Tearful Nights highlights how Canadian women's experiences of wartime marital separation resembled and differed from those of their European counterparts.