Select Bibliography: Women and the Economy in the 19th Century

Cadigan, Sean T. Hope and Deception in Conception Bay. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Print.

---. "Whipping them into Shape: State Refinement of Patriarchy among Conception Bay Fishing Families, 1787-1825." Their Lives and Times: Women in Newfoundland and Labrador: A Collage. Ed. Carmelita McGrath, Barbara Neis, and Marilyn Porter. St. John's: Killick Press, 1995. Print.

Kealey, Linda, ed. Pursuing Equality: Historical Perspectives on Women in Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's: ISER, 1993. Print.

Keough, Willeen. The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860. Ph.D Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2001. Typescript.

Hiller, Jim and Peter Neary, eds. Newfoundland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Essays in Interpretation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. Print.

McGrath, Carmelita; Barbara Neis; and Marilyn Porter, eds. Their Lives and Times: Women in Newfoundland and Labrador: A Collage. St. John's: Killick Press, 1995. Print.

Porter, Marilyn. "'She Was the Skipper of the Shore Crew': Notes on the History of the Sexual Division of Labour in Newfoundland." Their Lives and Times: Women in Newfoundland and Labrador: A Collage. Ed. Carmelita McGrath, Barbara Neis, and Marilyn Porter. St. John's: Killick Press, 1995. 33-47. Print.