Caroline Kearney's husband bequeathed her a heart-breaking dilemma.
Writing his will as he lay dying in Melbourne in 1865, Edward Kearney promised his wife GBP100 a year and more to educate their sons, but only if she moved to Ireland with their six children.
How did this young widow respond to such a draconian exercise of male power?.
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