In the Interval of the Wave: Prince Edward Island Women's Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing 9780773589254

Capturing the hidden histories of Prince Edward Island women in their handwritten pages.

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In the Interval of the Wave: Prince Edward Island Women's Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing
 9780773589254

Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: In the Interval of the Wave
1 The Tumbled Silence of Stone: Prince Edward Island Women’s Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing
2 In Their Long-Belted Dresses: Images of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Prince Edward Island Women
3 The Emerging Pioneer Subject: Entrepreneur Emma Chadwick Stretch’s 1856–60 Letters and Ledger
4 A Rural Woman’s Perceptions of Home and Beyond: Farm Wife Amy Darby Tanton Andrew’s “A Line a Day,” 1910–1915
5 The Modern Professional Woman: Teacher Lucy Bardon Palmer Haslam’s Unpublished Journals (1884–1943)
6 Urban Bourgeois Women and Their Everyday: Margaret Gray Lord (1845–1941) and Wanda Lefurgey Wyatt (1895–1998)
7 Travelling Women’s Diaries: Mercy Ann Coles (1864), Violet E. Goldsmith (1901), Carrie Holman (1917), Vera Hyde (1929–30) and Lucy Palmer Haslam (1932)
8 Now Passion’s Past: Life Writing, Women and Their Times
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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