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In the interval of the wave : Prince Edward Island women's nineteenth- and early twentieth-century life writing / Mary McDonald-Rissanen.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
McDonald-Rissanen, Mary, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women--Prince Edward Island--Social life and customs--19th century.
Women.
Women--Prince Edward Island--Social life and customs--20th century.
Women--Prince Edward Island--History--19th century.
Women--Prince Edward Island--History--20th century.
Women--Prince Edward Island--Biography.
Women--Prince Edward Island--Identity.
Women and literature--Prince Edward Island--History--19th century.
Women and literature.
Women and literature--Prince Edward Island--History--20th century.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (286 p.)
Distribution:
Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014.
Place of Publication:
Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Capturing the hidden histories of Prince Edward Island women in their handwritten pages.
Contents:
Prologue: In the Interval of the Wave
The Tumbled Silence of Stone: Prince Edward Island Women's Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing
In Their Long-Belted Dresses: Images of Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Prince Edward Island Women
The Emerging Pioneer Subject: Entrepreneur Emma Chadwick Stretch's 1856-60 Letters and Ledger
A Rural Woman's Perceptions of Home and Beyond: Farm Wife Amy Darby Tanton Andrew's "A Line a Day," 1910-1915
The Modern Professional Woman: Teacher Lucy Bardon Palmer Haslam's Unpublished Journals (1884-1943)
Urban Bourgeois Women and Their Everyday: Margaret Gray Lord (1845-1941) and Wanda Lefurgey Wyatt (1895-1998)
Travelling Women's Diaries: Mercy Ann Coles (1864), Violet E. Goldsmith (1901), Carrie Holman (1917), Vera Hyde (1929-30) and Lucy Palmer Haslam (1932)
Now Passion's Past: Life Writing, Women and Their Times.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-261) and index.
ISBN:
9780773589261
0773589260
9780773589254
0773589252
OCLC:
872601263

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