"Newlywed Widow" is the autobiographical account of how a premonition changed the fate and exposure of a young girl. Understanding how one single premonition could give a six-year old girl the tools to manage sexual abuse, deafness, near death experience and bullying, is what "Newlywed Widow" brings to light. This is one life's story worth reading.

“A frank, poignant memoir about an unlikely marriage, a tragic death in Iraq, and the soul-testing work of picking up the pieces” (People) in the tradition of such powerful bestsellers as Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and Carole Radziwill’s What Remains. Artis Henderson was a free-spirited young woman with dreams of traveling the world and one day becoming a writer. Marrying a conservative Texan soldier and becoming an Army wife was never part of her plan, but when she met Miles, Artis threw caution to the wind and moved with him to a series of Army bases in dusty Southern towns, far from the exotic future of her dreams. If this was true love, she was ready to embrace it. But when Miles was training and Artis was left alone, she experienced feelings of isolation and anxiety. It did not take long for a wife’s worst fears to come true. On November 6, 2006, the Apache helicopter carrying Miles crashed in Iraq, leaving twenty-six-year-old Artis—in official military terms—an “unremarried widow.” In this memoir Artis recounts not only the unlikely love story she shared with Miles and her unfathomable recovery in the wake of his death—from the dark hours following the military notification to the first fumbling attempts at new love—but also reveals how Miles’s death mirrored her own father’s, in a plane crash that Artis survived when she was five years old and that left her own mother a young widow. Unremarried Widow is “a powerful look at mourning as a military wife….You can finish it in a day and find yourself haunted weeks later” (The New York Times Book Review).

A perfect marriage. A young husband with a budding career. A single phone call that stunned a newlywed wife and a small Arkansas community.At twenty-seven, Alexis McMahan's life had finally molded itself into perfection ... until the call that ended it all and forced her to start over.Through Christ, Alexis and Jorre McMahan had overcome tumultous circumstances while they dated, leading Jorre to become a football coach. Bonded together by Christ, football, and their impassioned love, the pair married, and Alexis assumed her new identity as Coach Mac's wife. Three months after their wedding, in the midst of football season, Alexis's picturesque world shattered when Coach Mac collapsed and died on the field, surrounded by his players.Jorre's unexpected death at the age of twenty-six confronted Alexis with the unknowns of young widowhood and so much more--the tragedy of Coach Mac's death unearthed his painful secret. The hidden truth cracked Alexis's perception of reality and catapulted her into an angry pit of despair. There her faith wavered ... until she chose to trust the only one who could pull her out and into the light: Jesus.

As a divorced single mother, author Sarah Attley learned to survive through many challenges in her life. She was raising two boys while working full-time and attending a college an hour away to earn a business administration degree. Attley was a busy mom who just wanted to give her kids a good life. Life suddenly changed when she ran into Scott, a good friend from her past. The two reconnected, fell in love, got married, and were expecting a baby girl. Life was good, and her longtime dream was becoming a reality. But then Scott died unexpectedly, and Attley found herself single again. In The Widow Next Door, she shares her story--of her life with and love for Scott, the grief of his death, strained family relationships, and how she deals with her husband’s absence and the life they could have had. The Widow Next Door offers a dramatic, moving memoir of a romance and marriage, the sudden unexpected death of a loved one, its surprising and dismaying aftermath, and Attley's journey to finding peace and happiness again.

Based on clerical ideals of female comportment and Golden Age playwrights’ fixation on questions of honor, modern scholarship, whether historical or literary, has viewed women as subjects and objects of patriarchal control. This study analyzes tensions and contradictions produced by the interplay of patriarchal norms and the realities of widows’ daily lives to demonstrate that in Castile patriarchy did not exist as a monolithic force, which rigidly enforced an ideology of female incapacity. The extensive analysis of archival documents shows widows actively engaged in their families and communities, confounding images of their reclusion and silence. Widows’ autonomy and authority were desirable attributes that did not collide with the demands of a society that recognized the contingent nature of patriarchal norms.

This monumental study of two generations of women who married either before or after the Patriote rebellions of 1837-38 explores the meaning of the transition from wife to widowhood in early nineteenth-century Montreal. Bettina Bradbury weaves together the individual biographies of twenty women, against the backdrop of collective genealogies of over 500, to offer new insights into the law, politics, demography, religion, and domestic life of the time. She shows how women from all walks of life interacted with and shaped Montreal's culture, customs, and institutions, even as they laboured under the shifting conditions of patriarchy. Wife to Widow provides a rare window into the significance of marriage and widowhood.

This new collection of essays brings together brand new research on widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe. The volume opens with an introductory chapter by the Editors which looks generally at the conditions and constructions of widowhood in this period. This is followed by a range of essays which illuminate different dimensions of widowhood across Europe - in England, Italy, France, Germany and Spain. A particular attraction of the volume is the attention given to widowers, and the comparisons made between the male and female experience of widowhood. It is an exciting reinterpretation of the subject which will do much to undo the traditional stereotype of the widow. Contributing to the volume are: Jodi Bilinkoff, Giulia Calvi, Sandra Cavallo, Isabelle Chabot, Julia Crick, Amy Erikson, Dagmar Freist, Elizabeth Foyster, Margaret Pelling, Pamela Sharpe,Tim Stretton, Barbara Todd, and Lyndan Warner.

Explores the social and cultural significance of Chinese communist legal practice in constructing marriage and gender relations in the turbulent period from 1940 to 1960.

This volume approaches Plutarch’s intellectual and professional activity, and the the way he managed to cover such an impressive range of areas and interests, which make of his work an inexhaustible source of information on the ancient world.