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Widowhood

Images

  • The War Widows Association of Great Britain [sticker].
  • War Widows Association of Great Britain : member of Council of British Service and ex-Service Organisations, affiliated to National Council of Women [letterhead].
  • A sailor's widow listens while a woman reads her a letter. Coloured lithograph by J. Vallou de Villeneuve, 183?, after J.A. Franquelin.
  • War Widows Association of Great Britain : member of Council of British Service and ex-Service Organisations, affiliated to National Council of Women : [introductory letter].
  • The Association that works for ALL war widows / War Widows Association of Great Britain.
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Catalogue

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    Life after a death : a study of the elderly widowed / Ann Bowling and Ann Cartwright.

    Bowling, Ann. | Date: 1982
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    A widows' asylum of the Renaissance : the Orbatello of Florence / Richard C. Trexler.

    Trexler, Richard C., 1932-2007. | Date: 1982
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    The accidental republic : amputee workingmen, destitute widows, and the remaking of American law, 1868-1922 / by John Fabian Witt.

    Witt, John Fabian. | Date: 2000
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    The Royal Naval Charitable Society, for the Relief of Indigent Orphans, Widows and Children, of Sea Officers, and also of Sea Officers Reduced by Misfortune to Indolence : instituted in 1791.

    Royal Naval Charitable Society, for the Relief of Indigent Orphans, Widows and Children, of Sea Officers, and also of Sea Officers Reduced by Misfortune to Indolence. | Date: 1833
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    Remarks at the annual meeting of the Erie County Medical Society : in relation to the formation of a society for the relief of widows and orphans of medical men / by the president, James P. White.

    White, James P. (James Platt), 1811-1881. | Date: 1856
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